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 »Interview With Pamela Jones, Editor of Groklaw
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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InformationWeek Declares SCO v. IBM Over and IBM Won. Huh?
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Well, this got my attention. InformationWeek has just stated in a strange anti-GPL, anti-Linux, anti-Open Source article called "Open Source Is Dead, Long Live Open Patents?" (he imagines the IBM patent move this week was to replace the GPL, if I've followed his train of thought) that IBM owns Unix
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Groklaw - The Truth about PJ... or Something
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"Well, I guess it had to happen. Anonymous has figured out the truth about PJ, I'm afraid. And he's determined to share it, so here you go. Feel free to embellish. Enjoy. [Updates interspersed]"
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The Peer to Patent Project Has Begun - 5 patents listed
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The first patent applications we are invited to try to disqualify by looking for prior art have been posted on the Peer to Patent Project website. This is the project working to provide the USPTO with information about prior art during the application process. It's an experiment, and it's historic. It's never been tried before, to let the public provide input into the application process.
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[...]So it looks like SCOsource was the first draft or dress rehearsal for what Microsoft is now trying with patents, all right, trying to find a way to neuter the GPL so it can tax Linux[...]
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