[tetsuo13]

At the risk of being downvoted out of existence, perhaps I should clarify.

I'm definitely not advocating his actions in the least, just saying that there are other companies that may not be doing well on the market and would be interested in someone who can take risks. More than anything this entire endeavor has been a warning to us that we haven't seen the last of this sort of behavior -- whether or not from McBride remains to be seen, but there are others who will also take these sorts of risks.

[aminuit]

Darl McBride wasn't taking any risks. He was being compensated to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for driving SCO to bankruptcy. There was no risk involved if he was going to be rewarded regardless of the outcome.

[jacquesm]

The only risk McBride ever took was whether or not his deal with Microsoft would be uncovered. If you look at the timetable of all the transactions around the investment by baystar it is clear that something is very smelly indeed.

I highly doubt that there are many situations to be sketched where a large and wealthy company is willing to pay money under the table to start a set of legal proceedings that are doomed to fail against innocent bystanders.

And if any such companies do exist then I hope they will follow SCOs trail, only a bit swifter please.

As for McBride leaving SCO, one way to interpret this is that there really are no more bits of meat left on the corpse.