Darl McBride was pushed or forced outside the company rather than him deciding to leave

On October 14, 2009, The SCO Group, Inc., ("SCO", "us", "we"or the "Company") announced that the Company has eliminated the Chief Executive Officer and President positions and consequently terminated Darl McBride.

Let's continue with our look at the trial testimony in the SCO v. Novell litigation. This is day 2, April 30, when our star witness of the day is Darl McBride. That day, the Chris Sontag testimony had finished up, which I've shown you already, and after him, Novell called Darl to the stand. After him, there were two other witnesses but we'll look at their testimony separately.

Latest from the Bizarre Cathedral comic strip by merc and crimperman. "Darl McBride Terminated!"

I've been going through the testimony at the July 27th hearing in SCO's bankruptcy, the one that resulted in the court ordering the management out of control and a Chapter 11 trustee appointed. It's fascinating to compare what was testified to under oath at that hearing with what was testified to under oath at the SCO v. Novell trial last May.

Chris Brown was in the courtroom for us today. It was all Darl McBride today, and there also was some sparring over SCO expert, Christine Botosan, he reports. It looks like the jury will be hearing about Judge Dale Kimball's ruling after all, because Novell intends to ask her about what happened to the stock when he issued his rulings. And there will be more Darl tomorrow.

Darl McBride says his company has strong products and a growing number of customers, so it will survive regardless of the outcome of legal battles.

Updates on the SCO case, including McBride's latest cash infusion for the company and Findings and Conclusions (on the 19th)

During the SCO vs Novell trial, last year, it was determined that Novell owned the copyrights to AT&T UNIX' source code and derivatives. Darl McBride, CEO of SCO speaking at the Novell vs SCO countertrial disagrees. He "stated that SCO holds the copyrights over UNIX", and that "many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers.