Darl Secretly Attended Novell's Brainshare (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Groklaw looks at a pair of interviews with Darl McBride and comes to some conclusions about SCO's strategy in its suit against Novell. "Both interviews indicate that the SCO plan in the Novell lawsuit was to have some ex-Novell executives on the stand to testify that they were at Novell at the time when the negotiations were going on and the contract was written up, both when Novell bought UNIX and when it sold whatever portion of UNIX they sold (SCO claims all of it, naturally), whereas the current Novell executives were not participants. They presumed that testimony would carry the day. Darl is one of the ex-Novell executives. Of course, if Novell succeeds in turning it instead into a federal copyright question, that plan goes down the drain."

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