[ILUG] ``SCO chief winning his battle with reality''

[Brian Foster]

Good Morning Silicon Valley
 Published: Wednesday August 4, 2004

   SCO chief winning his battle with reality
    By John Paczkowski

 Darl McBride, CEO and president of SCO, opened SCO Forum
 2004 with another one of his witheringly tedious keynotes,
 in which he proclaimed, remarkably, that SCO will
 ultimately prevail in its court case against IBM.  "As the
 head of this company, I can promise you that we will
 defend Unix and we will continue to see that it has a
 bright future," McBride said.  "Financially, we're well
 prepared for this battle.  We plan to be the ones standing
 after going 15 rounds."  A remarkable assertion from the
 CEO of a company whose legal campaign against Linux has
 been defined by its utter failure to prove Linux contains
 its intellectual property.  But then McBride's a
 remarkable guy.  As Free Software Foundation General
 Counsel Eben Moglen once said, "As an amateur scholar of
 constitutional law, Mr. McBride is longer than he is
 deep."  And that does appear to be the case.  Because
 despite vast swaths of evidence to the contrary, McBride
 seems convinced that SCO has successfully defended its
 intellectual property in court.  "We've obviously
 overachieved on that objective," McBride said of SCO's
 efforts to defend against IBM's alleged intellectual
 property infringements.  "If I had to make this decision
 [to sue IBM] ten times over, the decision would be the
 same one ten times," McBride said.  "Big Blue is no doubt
 a formidable opponent and we still expect to win.  Keep
 your eye on the [court] filings.  Over the coming year,
 one of the things that you're going to see is that Big
 Blue has got big problems."
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 Good Morning Silicon Valley is written and edited with
 the able assistance of John Murrell.

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