"Even if you potentially had a problem [with concerns about Unix code in Linux back then], what are you going to do?" McBride asked. "Sue Linus Torvalds? And get what?"-- Darl McBride, 2003-05-30

"I'm not trying to screw up the Linux business," he said. "I'm trying to take care of the shareholders, employees and people who have been having their rights trampled on."-- Darl McBride, 2003-05-30

"If there's a way of resolving this that is positive, then we can get back out to business and everybody is good to go, then I'm fine with that," McBride said today in an interview with Computerworld. "If that's one of the outcomes of this, then so be it."-- Darl McBride, 2003-05-30

"It's sort of like somebody stealing your car, and you hunt them down and you find them, and they say you can have your car back, but there's no penalty for that," McBride said. "If there's no penalty for stealing property, then where are we?"-- Darl McBride, 2003-05-30

"We strongly disagree with Novell ... and see it as a desperate attempt to curry favor with the Linux community," McBride said of Messman's letter. "If the System V code is showing up inside the [Linux] kernel, then that is going to change the playing field."-- Darl McBride, 2003-05-30

SCO saw its revenue go from $200 million in 1999 to $60 million this year "due primarily to the onslaught of Linux in the marketplace," he said. "The notion that we're going to sit back and let the Linux steamroller go over us at our expense, at the shareholders' expense, makes zero sense to me."-- Darl McBride, 2003-05-30