Darl 'nutter' McBride

[Druga Runda]

and his cronies

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14855

The letter to NERSC director Horst Simon is the INQUIRER’s nomination for the winner of the award for the most uncalled-for use of capital letters outside a usenet flame war.

Gregory Pettit, SCO's regional director of intellectual-property licensing told Simon:

"I am requesting a meeting so that we may discuss the alternatives available to your firm. WE BELIEVE WE CAN PROPOSE SOLUTIONS THAT WILL BE AGREEABLE AND ECONOMICALLY FEASIBLE FOR YOU. If you fail to respond to our efforts to pursue a licensing arrangement, WE WILL TURN YOUR NAME OVER TO OUR OUTSIDE COUNSEL FOR CONSIDERATION OF LEGAL ACTION."

The letters were made public by Mark Koehn, an intellectual-property attorney at Shaw-Pittman, who got them under a request under the US’s Freedom of Information Act.

Meanwhile the Washington Post has reported that SCO charmer Chief Executive Darl McBride has warned the government of the dangers of open source.

In a letter republished by the Open Source and Industry Alliance, McBride said that free or low-cost open-source software, full of proprietary code, is grabbing an increasing portion of the software market. "Each open-source installation displaces or pre-empts a sale of proprietary, licensable and copyright-protected software" McBride said in a letter."

He said that this would mean fewer jobs, less software revenue and reduced incentives for software companies to innovate. Open Source was a serious threat to the capitalist system, he added.

In a bid to get Senator’s a bit paranoid McBride said: "Open-source software - available widely through the Internet - has the potential to provide our nation's enemies or potential enemies with computing capabilities that are restricted by U.S. law.

"A computer expert in North Korea who has a number of personal computers can download the latest version of Linux...and in short order build a virtual supercomputer," he concluded.

Er, so all computers should belong to the US and work only on Windows XP Darl?

It might have been posted before, but are crazy people allowed to run companies into the ground without getting punished. Those CEO's have wayyyy too much power, what are those poor SCO shareholders thinking of?

 

[akira888]

He's not crazy - he's trying to convince idiot Senators to bail his failing firm out.

His logic is absolutely impeccable. And I guess Bedouin nomads should fear the rain - after all what will happen to all the jobs in water distribution if water could be had for free.