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Darl McBride

(1959–2024) Businessperson

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Darl McBride was a businessperson.

Quick Facts About Darl McBride

Born: November 24, 1959
Died: September 16, 2024
Profession: Businessperson

About Darl McBride

[Wikidata] American businessman (1959–2024)... | [Wikipedia] Darl Charles McBride was an American entrepreneur and CEO of Shout TV Inc. He was the former CEO of The SCO Group. On March 7, 2003, during McBride's tenure as CEO of the company, the company initiated the SCO v. IBM litigation against IBM, alleging breach of contract and copyright infringement clai

Quotes by Darl McBride

Obviously Linux owes its heritage to UNIX, but not its code. We would not, nor will not, make such a claim.

Claims

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IBM has taken our valuable trade secrets and given them away to Linux.

Given

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When we take a top-tier view of the amount of code showing up inside of Linux today that is either directly related…

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I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be…

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At the end of the day, the GPL is not about making software free; it's about destroying value.

Destroying

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And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to…

Language

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Mark my words, there will be a day that will come when you will all see many, many documents that will directly…

Currents

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We're not talking about insignificant amounts of code. It's substantial System V code showing up in Linux.

Amount

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Linux doesn't have IP roots.

Linux

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We counted over a million lines of code that we allege are infringed in the Linux kernel today.

Code

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The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is…

Broken

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