SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion) [LWN.net]

Darl McBride rides again: Network World Fusion reports from a talk he gave in Cannes. "As he fights a prolonged legal battle on several fronts, McBride has positioned himself as a de facto champion of IP protection amid growing threats from free, open source development. 'SCO's market share has dropped from 40% to 10%. ... We are under attack from what I call 'hurricane Linux,'' McBride said. However, he praised companies that have commercialized Linux, such as Red Hat."

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SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion)

Posted Oct 12, 2004 15:06 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Massive chuckling ensues... so Darl's going to start his own Groklaw, huh? That should be quite amusing.

It always amazes me that people that give lip service to the worship of the free market never actually want to let that market do its job. Of course, the icecutters' union probably had the same view when refrigerators came on the scene...

SCO's version of Groklaw

Posted Oct 12, 2004 16:11 UTC (Tue) by bajw (subscriber, #11712) [Link]

Of course, they'll need to name the SCO version of the Groklaw site "SCOfflaw".

SCO's version of Groklaw

Posted Oct 12, 2004 16:43 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Touché... :-)

SCO's version of Groklaw

Posted Oct 13, 2004 0:45 UTC (Wed) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

Impeccable call, that man! (-:

SCO's version of Groklaw

Posted Oct 13, 2004 18:20 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

Turns out it will be "prosco.net". Due to show up in November, sometime...unless they file for a delay on that, too, of course.

SCO's version of Groklaw

Posted Oct 13, 2004 23:31 UTC (Wed) by hppnq (subscriber, #14462) [Link]

;-)

I was hoping for "Away From It All", you know, afia.sco.com, with the motto "When you know you want more, but don't look where to go".

SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion)

Posted Oct 12, 2004 16:34 UTC (Tue) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

That's the most amusing quote. Remember when McBride said his problem was
with companies like Red Hat trying to make money from "their" "IP" and not
with end users?

SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion)

Posted Oct 12, 2004 17:58 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

The latest spin from Sun (and now SCO?) seems to be that Red Hat is just another proprietary vendor because they (horrors!) charge money.

SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion)

Posted Oct 12, 2004 15:10 UTC (Tue) by dh (subscriber, #153) [Link]

Well,

in my opinion the questions remains what Mr. McBride _really_ is: A mormon
or a moron...

Best regards,
Dirk

SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion)

Posted Oct 12, 2004 15:36 UTC (Tue) by compenguy (guest, #25359) [Link]

Nothing that says he can't be both, but I don't think the Provo Linux User's Group or the Brigham Young University Unix User's Group like to claim him. I seem to recall they staged a protest outside of SCO's Lindon offices a few years back.

SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion)

Posted Oct 12, 2004 16:01 UTC (Tue) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link]

Or both? ;)

No doubt that website SCO is going to launch soon (of that really is true), will provide hours and hours of fun reading :)

SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion)

Posted Oct 12, 2004 16:11 UTC (Tue) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

...if they can manage to keep it running, since they seem to be prone to "hacker attacks" (aka tripping over the power cable, etc.) :-)

SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion)

Posted Oct 12, 2004 18:46 UTC (Tue) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link]

Sorry, but as a Florida resident I can state, unequivocally, that the letter "L" has already been used during this year's hurricane season -- Hurricane Lisa never touched the US mainland; rather, it strayed into the mid-North Atlantic, where it bothered vessels in the commercial shipping lanes.

SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion)

Posted Oct 12, 2004 19:28 UTC (Tue) by s_cargo (guest, #10473) [Link]

I am so sick of this line of BS from bozos like McBribe. If you're going to steal IP, the place to hide it is in proprietary software, where no one else can inspect the code.

Since he is so concerned about protecting IP, he should be out lobbying for some sort of "sunshine law" for proprietary software.

SCO's McBride want to create open source 'wild west'

Posted Oct 13, 2004 0:41 UTC (Wed) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

Lock up your women and children, the McBride clan's hit the likker again! They're shooting holes in things down Main Street way - mostly their own feet, sadly not their own heads but hardly for want of trying.

SCO's McBride warns of open source 'wild west' (NW Fusion)

Posted Oct 13, 2004 18:16 UTC (Wed) by dbreakey (guest, #1381) [Link]

SCO's market share has dropped from 40% to 10%

10% of what market share? Did he ever clarify exactly what he was talking about? Or is he deliberately being obscure, hoping people might think this means that they had, or even have, a larger market share than, say, Apple?

In case anyone's wondering, this is a rhetorical question…