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.
Read more »The Groklaw effect hits Becta. And yes, I am coining a new term
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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).
Read more »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.
Read more »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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Interview With Pamela Jones, Editor of Groklaw
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When Pamela Jones, better known as PJ, started Groklaw, a Web site devoted to covering and explaining legal cases of interest to the Free Software and Open Source communities, she preferred to remain anonymous and showed no desire to become well-known.
Read more »Speaking of Linux and the spirit of open source
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It's almost shameful how paltry Novell's understanding of open source is. I don't say this to denigrate anyone personally, but when I read things like this from Groklaw I just can't understand how Novell manages to say "open source" with a straight face.
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Pamela Jones gets gong
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PAMELA JONES, laserlike paralegal, principled advocate for free and open source software, and founder, headmistress and editor of Groklaw, received the Knowledge Masters Award for Innovation from the Louis Round Wilson Academy, she revealed at Groklaw on Saturday.
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The Media on SCO Bankruptcy
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I thought it would be fun to include some of the media reaction to the news of the SCO bankruptcy filing. Some of the headlines are inspired. The winner has to be "SCO files Chapter 11 bankruptcy - Seeks court protection from its own lawsuits". My personal favorite is, "SCO files for Chapter 11, threatens business as usual." There is also a funny graphic in the collection.
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Countries' Comments on MS OOXML - How You Can Help
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I think I see a way we could be really helpful to the ISO folks having to sort through all the 10,000 comments the various countries filed with their votes on MS OOXML.
Read more »Fair Use: Affirmative Defense or Right? Do I Have to Choose?
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After all I went through trying to figure out if I was allowed to link to some Pavarotti videos the other day, I decided I'd better study a bit more about fair use. I've also since gotten a fair amount of email about the Copyright Alliance's claim that fair use is not a consumer right, but merely an affirmative defense.
Read more »Commentary on the OOXML results from Groklaw
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Microsoft is telling it in their press release that 74% of all qualified votes approved: "The results show that 51 ISO members, representing 74 percent of all qualified votes, stated their support for ratification of Open XML." That is downright silly.
Read more »Frankly Speaking: Grokking SCO's Demise
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The SCO Group’s $5 billion threat against Linux is effectively finished. On Friday, Aug. 10, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO doesn’t actually own the copyrights that it was using to threaten — and in some cases, sue — Linux users.
Read more »Best FUD Fighter: And the winner is... me!
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The five winners of this year's Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards were announced last night at OSCON, and I am one of the winners, as "Best FUD Fighter". I love that. Best FUD Fighter.
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Hot Topics in Patent Law - Sixth Annual Symposium, July 17
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Please join us for the Sixth Annual Symposium on Hot Topics in Patent Law on July 17, presented by the George Mason University School of Law and co-sponsored by Banner & Witcoff.
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