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   Christine Hall (brideoflinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 04:02:08 JST Christine Hall

   The man who, as president and CEO of SCO, attempted to sue Linux out of existence died a month and a half ago with little notice by the Linux and open : Once Linux’s Biggest Enemy: Darl McBride Dies and Nobody Notices https://fossforce.com/2024/11/once-linuxs-biggest-enemy-darl-mcbride-dies-and-nobody-notices

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 04:53:34 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Jack William Bell

     @BrideOfLinux @jackwilliambell Some prehistory: first there was a Linux distro called Caldera that Ray Noorda (of Novell) funded. Caldera hit the buffers around 1997, but first they'd bought the remains of Digital Research, of CP/M and DR-DOS fame, and their lawsuit against Microsoft continued. In the end MSFT settled for $500M … and McBride went in search of more litigation zombies to buy. SCO was in big trouble and was parted out for bits: McBride picked up the trademarks and idiotic lawsuit.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Nov-2024 04:56:18 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Jack William Bell

     @BrideOfLinux @jackwilliambell I'm bringing this up because I'm still sore: I worked at old-SCO until 1995, when it was a respectable UNIX VAR, and McBride trashed a formerly solid brand so hard that if new-SCO had still operated in the UK after 1998 I could have sued them for defamation (over what they did to my tech resume—employers and employees in the UK have a legal obligation not to besmirch one another's reputation).