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Linux-Unix copy-code dispute rumbles on
News The email, which was sent to SCO Group CEO Darl McBride by a senior vice president at the company, forwards on an email from a SCO engineer. In the email, Davidson shares his findings with senior vice president Reg Broughton, who then forwards that... [15 Jul 2005]
SCO quarterly revenue falls 58 per cent
News Chief executive Darl McBride said the slip probably won't have financial effects because upgrades are a gradual process. The SCO Group reported another quarter of financial losses on Tuesday, spurred by dwindling software and licensing revenue. [22 Dec 2004]
War! What is it good for? Linux supercomputing
News The Department of Defense has ignored the thoughts of SCO's CEO Darl McBride about Linux being a threat to national security. Linux is going to war - and this time, it's not with Microsoft. The US Department of Defense has bought two Linux... [18 Aug 2004]
SCO suits see victory…
News CEO Darl McBride said Thursday that SCO's $61.3m in cash and marketable securities is enough to see the cases through. The SCO Group won two and lost two in its Unix-related lawsuits against IBM and Novell, with a federal judge issuing rulings that... [14 Jun 2004]
Latest SCO target revealed: the US government
News SCO's legal threats reinforce a message Chief Executive Darl McBride sent to another part of the federal government in January: members of Congress. Each open-source installation displaces or pre-empts a sale of proprietary, licensable and... [22 Mar 2004]
SCO reveals unlucky Linux users
News The slipped deadline - which is probably unrelated to the fact that SCO only opened its Linux licence shop and named a company to actually pay for one such licence within the last week - wasn't mentioned by CEO Darl McBride in the company's... [03 Mar 2004]
Today’s the day: SCO to name large user in lawsuit
News SCO CEO Darl McBride announced the plan on Monday at the Software 2004 conference in San Francisco but didn't identify the company beyond saying it would have a recognised name. The first one won't show up until tomorrow," McBride said. [02 Mar 2004]
SCO chief suffers another denial of service - on his phone
News While SCO's technical staff worked at dodging MyDoom's assault on the company's website, their chief executive officer, Darl McBride, was experiencing a denial of service attack at a much closer range. [04 Feb 2004]
SCO sidesteps MyDoom, shifts site
News We believe that Microsoft's $250,000 reward in addition to the $250,000 reward offered by SCO will significantly assist the FBI in obtaining serious leads that may help catch the perpetrators of this virus," said SCO CEO, Darl McBride. [03 Feb 2004]
SCO puts $250,000 bounty on MyDoom virus writer's head
News Darl McBride, president and CEO of SCO, said in a statement: "This one is different and much more troubling, since it harms not just our company, but also damages the systems and productivity of a large number of other companies and organisations... [28 Jan 2004]
Re:Viewing 2003 - Software
News What's more, 2003 will forever be the year remembered for the emergence of Darl McBride. The rise and rise of open source, especially the Linus operating system, dominated the year in software. But that's not to say there haven't been issues along... [22 Dec 2003]
See disputed code? Oh SCO you won't, says judge
News The minute we open it up we have in fact opened it up to the public and we can't restrict it in the future from a proprietary standpoint," said SCO CEO Darl McBride at conference in August this year. When the SCO Group finally lays its cards on the... [16 Dec 2003]
IBM wins victory of sorts in SCO battle
News In the spring, when SCO first said Unix code had been copied into Linux, CEO Darl McBride told silicon.com's sister site News.com: "We will be happy to show the evidence we have at the appropriate time in a court setting. [08 Dec 2003]
Does Novell-SuSE deal tread on non-compete clause?
News The enterprise software company issued a statement on Tuesday dismissing a claim by SCO CEO Darl McBride that the acquisition contravenes an agreement signed in 1995. McBride's characterisation of the agreements between Novell and SCO is inaccurate... [20 Nov 2003]
More Linux lawsuits on the cards from SCO
News CEO Darl McBride said the company had signed an agreement with the law firm of David Boies, already handling SCO's case against computing giant IBM, to include Linux-related copyright cases. McBride added that lawsuits likely will be preceded and... [19 Nov 2003]
