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And today he's a Marjorie Taylor Green-retweeting bankrupt conspiracy theorist. Funnily enough his personal website <title> is "Billionaire Cheat Codes"

IDK, if I was put in charge of a company losing money like crazy and was genuinely trying to turn it around, my first thought would not be "oh, let's hire David Boies".

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/IBM-835-Exhibit_224.pdf follows a good explaination of sco's tactics at the time. During the lawsuit a dedicated server company rackshack (later ev1 servers) bought a license for all their users between. According to the owner Robert Marsh later in the trial, he felt in the end SCO was misleading and provided false information.

If the stock went so low, couldn't IBM or whoever just buy SCO? Or were not there not a controlling number of shares available?

His personal website contains gems like this one: > "Darl McBride will be remembered as one who fought for the rights of the individual against tyranny, for freedom against slavery, for intellectual liberty against herd mentality. In short, he is a Howard Roark (Ayn Rand's protagonist in 'The Fountainhead') for our age." > Francis Erdman, Blog Kinetic And other heavily narcissistic quotes. Not surprising that he saw nothing wrong in appropriating other people's voluntary work and calling them long haired stinkies at the same time. What a fellow :)

>retaining David Boies to represent us, That name!!! I followed the SCO lawsuit closely through Groklaw and /. back in the day.

It would have been more interesting to see SCO/Caldera being turned into a profitable Unix company, rather than going the lawsuit route. All development of SCOs products just stopped, there were never an attempt to turn the company around.