Pinniped, that is WRONG! Even after the stupid, arrogant move that Darl McBride made with SCO, to hope he commits suicide is WRONG! Yes, I too thought he made a very stupid move by trying to sue others for supposed Linux infringement, but that is NO reason to wish that someone would commit suicide, as I would NEVER wish for even my worst enemy to do that. After all, people can and frequently do change.
Hopefully Darl has learned his lesson here -- only time will tell if he truly has. Granted his name may be mud for several years to come (and he deserves that, big-time!). But it is my hope that he learned his lesson here and that he learns that you don't just go out and sue anyone for any reason at all. Yes, he shoulda known right from the get-go that he didn't have a case, but that didn't seem to stop his arrogance -- and look at where it got him.
Too bad for him that he had to learn his lesson the hard way. Hopefully he will be wiser for the experience. And I dare say he'll be doing something else in the I.T. world. Even after that, I expect someone else will give him a chance, although given what he did, that'll probably take a while. Hopefully though, he'll learn from this, and hopefully in the future we'll see a less arrogant and more humble Darl McBride somewhere down the road. But to wish that he'd commit suicide is absolutely positively WRONG.
Fred in St. Louis |