Darl McBride

Darl McBride (* 1960 ) was since 28 June 2002 until his dismissal on October 14, 2009, the Managing Director of the SCO Group Inc. (formerly Caldera International). During this time, he named Caldera into SCO Group.

Journey

McBride earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University and a master's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Darl McBride is a member of the Mormon faith. He speaks Japanese and was in Japan for two years of the Latter-day Saints as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ.

From 1988 to 1996 he worked at Novell, first in the Japanese branch and later as vice president and general manager of Novell's Embedded Systems Group (NEST ). He left Novell and was the senior vice president of IKON Office Solutions. Forbes magazine reported that in 1997 he sued IKON and in an arbitration was attributed to 3 million U.S. dollars. He was also involved in two start-up companies, " SBI and Company ", a society for professional services, which he founded and where he worked as CEO; later as CEO of Point Serve, a software company. For both companies, he acquired venture capital. On 2 August 2000 McBride began his work as president of the online business planning of the company FranklinCovey, which he carried until shortly before his move to SCO.

On 14 October 2009 McBride was dismissed by the SCO bankruptcy trustee, as his position in the company under a bankruptcy trustee is no longer necessary.

Wave of litigation

On 7 March 2003 he launched the lawsuit against IBM intellectual property infringement. Darl McBride's brother Kevin McBride is also involved as an attorney on the lawsuit settlement. In this wave of lawsuits were next to IBM and Novell, Red Hat, AutoZone and DaimlerChrysler drawn.

Personal clashes

These arguments suggested by the opponents in the process usually be summed up as aggressive appearance Darl McBride in the above processes high waves.