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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.