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The Most Hated Company In Tech (Business Week)

Posted Jan 26, 2004 16:56 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
Parent article: The Most Hated Company In Tech (Business Week)

"One was so unnerving that SCO's security had a sharpshooter in the room when McBride spoke at a tech conference in Las Vegas in December. "

Part of me wonders if he was paid by the board to shoot McBride if he talked ' on the many things we know' that would end up being used against them in court. In all actuallity, McBride strikes me as the type to say 'It would be great press to say we had to have a sharpshooter to guard me against those rapid radicals.'

The Most Hated Company In Tech (Business Week)

Posted Jan 27, 2004 10:15 UTC (Tue) by ekj (guest, #1524) [Link] (1 responses)

It's SCO. The only safe assumption to make is that everything they say is unrelated to the real world.

That being said, it's a pretty dumb statement. Which is also nothing new from SCO.

Think about it. How exactly is a "sharp-shooter" going to improve the security of a speaker in a public conference with a large audience ? If someone from the audience fires at Darl, is he going to pull out his sniper-rifle and fire into the panicking crowds, magically hitting the one perpetrator while avoiding all the innocents surrounding him ?

There are situations where attack can provide a good defence. This ain't one of them.

The Most Hated Company In Tech (Business Week)

Posted Jan 27, 2004 19:30 UTC (Tue) by fLameDogg (guest, #11305) [Link]

Well said. Maybe the sharpshooter was just there to pick off any penguins who happened along.