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Once Linux’s biggest enemy: Darl McBride dies and nobody notices

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    arqalite
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    To be fair, the SCO vs Linux ordeal is about 20 years old at this point - so nowadays the percentage of people that would actually care is very little. A large majority of the community wasn't...

    To be fair, the SCO vs Linux ordeal is about 20 years old at this point - so nowadays the percentage of people that would actually care is very little. A large majority of the community wasn't around at the time, and whoever was around back then, either is retired or stopped holding any sort of grudge towards McBride.

    And I don't see why anyone from the Linux world would bother to say anything - it would be disrespectful to say anything bad about him at this point, and I don't think anyone wants to praise him, so saying nothing seems to be for the best.

    That said, my condolences to his family and loved ones.

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    1. creesch
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      20 years is not that long for that many people to have be retired :D In fact, I'd argue that a lot of the people that were somewhat invested in this are not going to retire for a while. These...

      either is retired or stopped holding any sort of grudge towards McBride.

      20 years is not that long for that many people to have be retired :D In fact, I'd argue that a lot of the people that were somewhat invested in this are not going to retire for a while. These people being the younger (say 18-30) ideological folks who did follow the saga. Effectively people somewhere in their late 30s, late 40s now.

      What I do remember from the reporting back then is that most news articles mostly mentioned SCO and not so much McBride as the CEO. In fact, now that I think about it, it seems to me that reporting over the past few decades has shifted in that area mentioning the CEO of a company in the context of these articles much more often.

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