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.
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.
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.
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.