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.

Yesterday, we reported that Darl McBride said that the plan for a reorganization is to spin off the "Unix assets" and leave him behind as CEO of the remnants of the company, that is, of the litigation. There are more details in the Daily Herald today, and apparently that is only one possibility...

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.

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)

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

"I was recently perusing through some old podcasts and came across an IT Conversations episode from November of 2003. It featured a speech given by SCO's CEO, Darl McBride, at Jupitermedia's Computer Digital Expo Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 18th, 2003. The speech was titled "There's No Free Lunch...Or Free Linux.""

SCO Group CEO Darl McBride says competition from the open source Linux operating system was a major reason why the company was forced to file for Chapter 11 on Friday. The slump, McBride said, "has been attributable to competition from alternative operating systems, including Linux."

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.