March 03, 2005

A Blast from the Past

vnunet.com Interview: SCO chief Darl McBride

See Darl shoot off his mouth. See Darl lie, and lie, and lie. Fast forward three years - see the trial judge tell SCO "Viewed against the backdrop of SCO's plethora of public statements concerning IBM's and others' infringement of SCO's purported copyrights to the UNIX software, it is astonishing that SCO has not offered any competent evidence to create a disputed fact regarding whether IBM has infringed SCO's alleged copyrights through IBM's Linux activities." See NASDAQ give SCO notice of delisting.

It must have seemed so simple back in 03 - lie through your teeth and sue a big rich company and they'll throw some money your way to get rid of the nuisance, and also leave the door open via precedent to try it on some other sucker. A nice shakedown train that Darl and hs co-conspirators could ride into the sunset. After all, the company itself was worthless - nobody was buying much of their antique UNIX system anymore, and they really needed some way to raise some money for themselves. So their extortion scheme seemed like a no-brainer.

Unfortunately, they were the no-brainers.

See this:

Are you still saying categorically that there is offending code in the Linux kernel? Yeah. That one is a no-brainer. When you look in the code base and you see line-by-line copy of our Unix System V code - not just the code itself, but comments to the code, titles that were in the comments and humour elements that were in the comments - you see that everything is taken straight across.

Everything is exactly the same except they have stripped off the copyright notices and pretended it was just Linux code. There could not be a more straightforward case on the Linux side.

And that's actually the Linux kernel, as opposed to other parts?
Correct, the kernel.

Of course, hundreds of Linux programmers have looked at the code and have found none of this - and SCO's (incompetent) legal team have yet to show even one line in court that was copied, even when compelled by a discovery order to do so.

Lies, lies, lies. Darl is a lying scumbag. I just hope the Justice Department is taking notes.

Posted on March 3, 2005 07:28 AM