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Groklaw 2.0

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In April Groklaw announced it will be shutting down. Now this decision has been reversed and instead PJ has handed the torch down to law professor Mark Webbink. He was General Counsel at Red Hat and he is on the board of the Software Freedom Law Center. So for legal advice on FOSS matters, Groklaw is still the place to go.

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Groklaw Responds to FUD About OIN

http://techrights.org

Response to the noise made by a "campaigner" for hire, who tries to characterise the pro-Linux OIN - not Microsoft/Apple/SCO - as an "evil empire"

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Groklaw Repeats Warning About Mono as a Patent Threat

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The site better known for its dedication to copyright fights against the Microsoft-funded SCO is turning its attention also to patent fights against the Microsoft-funded Novell/Mono

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Groklaw to Be Included in the Library of Congress's Historic Internet Materials Collections?

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Groklaw has been selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in its web archival project, in the category of Legal Blawgs. I feel incredibly honored and validated by this invitation. We have created a collection of materials that has recognized value to researchers and historians. We have to give permission, though, and Groklaw isn't just me.

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Novell Gives Money to the Scandalous SYS-CON (Behind Attacks on Groklaw et al)

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Novell is providing funds to a very controversial network that distorts the SCO case, defames its critics, and grossly abuses netiquette

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Now It’s Groklaw’s Turn

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Groklaw comes under fire for speaking about taboo areas; More examples that are given here are a case of spin and authors not sticking to facts.

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How Microsoft Intercepts Critics Using Libel

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Groklaw was accused by a Microsoft executive of being an IBM site

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Is Microsoft trying to take control of ODF?

http://www.heise-online.co.uk

After a recent meeting of the SC 34 committee, the ISO/IEC group responsible for OOXML, Groklaw are reporting that they believe Microsoft are trying to take control of the Open Document Format (ODF), the uncontroversial open document format standard.

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A New Groklaw Feature - Erwan's Archive Explorer

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We have, thanks to Erwan, a new search feature on Groklaw. He calls it Archive Explorer, and its purpose is to help you find articles more quickly than just by looking down the chronological list on our Archives page. It also helps you find articles linked from our permanent pages. In other words, by topic.

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An Interview With Pamela Jones, Founder and Editor of Groklaw

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Pamela Jones, better known as PJ, started Groklaw, a web site devoted to covering and explaining legal cases in the news of interest to the Free Software and Open Source communities.

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The Groklaw effect hits Becta. And yes, I am coining a new term

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Quite a long time ago (maybe in 2000), people started talking about the Slashdot effect. Being Slashdotted meant (and still means) that a truckload of computers online suddenly decide to access your site, because one of your pages was linked from Slashdot’s home page. The results on your servers used to be disastrous.

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Microsoft May be Threatening ODF-Supportive Governments, by Proxy

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Groklaw calls it “slime, slime, slime,” but what it truly might be is a simple case of bullying and intimidation. We saw this in Malaysia and days some ago we saw this India (heaps of similar examples are cited therein, including the story about jilted CIOs).

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Harald Welte and Groklaw announced as winners of the FSF's annual free software awards

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"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced the recipients of its Award for Projects of Social Benefit and its Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Groklaw received the social benefit award, and Harald Welte received the advancement award. FSF president Richard Stallman handed out the awards at the conclusion of the FSF's annual associate members meeting in Cambridge, MA..."

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Open Document Format Alliance Refutes the Burton Group Report on ODF

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The Open Document Format Alliance has released a paper [PDF] refuting the recent Burton Group's Report on ODF and MSOOXML. I asked for and received permission to publish it here on Groklaw. The ODF Alliance response takes 18 points from the Burton Group's Report and answers them point by point. I think you will enjoy it. And I have a few impressions of my own to share with you, and then you can tell me what you think of it all.

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Some Ideas for Marketing the OLPC

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You likely saw the Wall Street Journal article on Intel and Microsoft's efforts to crush/compete with the One Laptop Per Child project:

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