Darl McBride

Darl Charles McBride, born on 24 November 1959 and died on 16 September 2024, was an American entrepreneur and chief executive of Shout TV Inc. He is best known as the former chief executive of The SCO Group. On 7 March 2003, during his tenure, the company began the SCO v. IBM litigation against IBM, alleging breach of contract and copyright infringement connected to Unix. SCO lost a series of court battles and was eventually forced into bankruptcy. His career is therefore tied to one of the most contested legal campaigns in the history of the software industry, and his entry here links to the company he led as a business figure whose strategy defined it.