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Once Linux's Biggest Enemy: Darl McBride Dies and Nobody Notices
The man who attempted to sue Linux out of existence died a month and a half ago with little notice by the Linux and open source communities.
Two weeks after the announcement, FOSS writer Maureen O’Gara, evidently working in cahoots with SCO, published an article in Linux Business News that identified PJ as Pamela Jones, and which contained unverified personal information about her, including a photo that was said to be of her home. As recently as 2017, long after McBride left the company, and even after SCO had all but ceased to exist as a functioning entity, the case was briefly revived, only to be slapped down again. In researching this article I found a nice “goodbye” piece on the website Utah Money Watch by writer David Politis who was a close personal friend of McBride.
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