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It should be noted, since Sys-Con is hiding it as "by Linux News Desk", all articles with that by-line are written by none other than PJ-stalker Maureen O'Gara.

The proof? It's currently the free article on Maureen's poorly-named LinuxGram website: http://www.linuxgram.com/

That's all her.

(For those who live in a cave, only surf for porn, etc., Maureen O'Gara wrote a slanderous piece about Groklaw's PJ, wherein she literally tried to stalk PJ, peeking in windows, generally making an ass of herself.)

Sys-Con swore they'd never publish an O'Gara piece again. Good thing noone believed them, since they just hid her behind a "Linux News Desk".

I found the article on O'Gara's site: linuxgram.com but without the pictures (which I did not care about anyway.)

It's not a question of if she'll show up again, but when. There's too much at stake for the other side to allow such a willing tool to go unused.

That doesn't mean she's been silenced. She owns G2 News and, presumably, hasn't fired herself. So you can still get her viewpoint if you are inclined to pay the $595 a year for her LinuxGram or the amusingly named ePostalNews. I'm sure she'll find a few folk with the spare cash spend so they can read her version of the news.

I think you're overstating things. She'll still be around, shilling at linuxgram, and I'm sure we'll see her at SCOForum 2005 if there is one, holding what I can only presume will be an absolutely worthless keynote speech. And just when you thought nothing could top The Endrool...

Linuxgram part of G2News and claims to "broken most of the key stories in Linux since it was started several years ago." Her version of "news" includes stuff like this tidbit where she breathlessly reports that some guy -- shown two pieces of code with no background or research (and under a non-disclosure agreement no reputable journalist would sign) -- declares them to be the same. That and numerous similar examples show that her "inside information" is obvious; she's sucking up to SCO by spinning the story their way. In return, they give her "inside information" -- which amounts to trivia like this; who they hired for a lawyer or how much they plan to charge for SCOSource -- so she can claim an exclusive story. This isn't journalism, it's pandering.

Kind of reminds me of the old Daily Show slogan, "When news breaks, we fix it."
Except for O'Gara it's more like, "When no news breaks, we invent some."

Check out the source of the article. I'm not quite convinced yet. :)

From the LinuxGram website ( http://www.linuxgram.com/ ):

"Copyright Notice: While we are flattered that some of our readers may want to pass along copies of our stories to customers, clients, associates, friends, family and co-workers, please know that this practice is illegal, violates our intellectual property rights and undermines our efforts to bring you the kind of reporting you've come to expect..

And, so the legalese: It is illegal to reproduce, copy, photocopy, forward, e-mail, publish, broadcast, post on an Internet/Intranet site, rewrite, store in a retrieval system or otherwise distribute this publication or any portion of this publication or any article in whole or in part by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of G2 Computer Intelligence.

Yet another beleagured bombshell hit the slashdot community today when it was revealed that Turbolinux may be dying. Linuxgram sent this weeniegram purporting the apparent demise.

And it doesn't stop there! Linuxgram hits home with the realization that all the commercial distros are facing problems, and that's why they were banding together to form UnitedLinux. But a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Now it shows that TurboLinux may destroy the whole UnitedLinux project!

Here. Of course what good is this going to be if Transmeta will be dead soon?

The correct link is Here

http://www.linuxgram.com/article.pl?sid=01/11/07/2 251222&section=newsflash

But at least they slam VA Software and /.

The correct link is located right here at linuxgram.

Also, IGN has measurements of the new device as compared to the old ones here.

Ummmm... it doesn't appear that Penguin will be around for much longer...

If you didn't already know, but Compaq has already dumped Alpha and now Intel has taken over control. And what that means you can surely imagine. With the IA64 coming up they surely don't need another 64bit platform! And probably not a better one... ;-)

I was once astroturfed by LinuxGram.

http://www.slashdot.org/articles/01/05/01/1936218. shtml

I was saying that LinuxGram sometimes posts a lot of Crap. Specifically an interview with Volker Wiegand by Maureen OGara where she took everything he said out of context and misquoted him in several places. I cant find the story on their site right now. But here is a summary from fairfax it.
http://it.mycareer.com.au/breaking/20010208/A20552 -2001Feb8.html

Here is a link with Volker Wiegands responce where he says that Maureen OGara deliberately misquoted him. http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-02 -08-002-20-NW-SS

When I posted the comment on Slashdot, two people created new Slashdot logins and replied. One was called SuSE_Rulez and the other was called ingenuity7. You can tell they were knew logins because they hadnt posted before or since. And Slashdot gives the UID numbers out consecutively and I checked to see what slashdot UID I would get on that day and it came right after theirs. Also look how ingenuity7 refers to LinuxGram as CSN which is its less well known parent company. To me he seems to know a lot more than normal people do about LinuxGram.

Of course, when I was astroturfed by LinuxGram I was hardly surprised but this story about LinuxToday is disapointing. Other journalists have replied to my face if I disagreed with them and thats the way it should be done.

They have ALWAYS been an enemy of Linux. Sun exists to sell Sparc boxes and Solaris. They wanted to sort-of help Linux to keep it as a buffer against MS. They didn't perceive Linux as a threat and that was their mistake.

Keep in mind that only a few days ago Compaq announced two items of great importance to Sun.

1. The transfer of the Alpha to Intel. Not just the chip, but the entire development group. This will give Intel so badly-needed expertese in the 64-bit arena. While the UltraSPARC isn't a match for the Alpha, they had Intel beated hands-down. This also kills the Alpha -- leaving only the Sparc and PPC as competitors for Intel (AMD, etc.) Sun is feeling the heat.

2. The impending release of their Sun migration tools. These allow much easier conversion of Solaris programs using the Solaris threading model to the Linux threading model.

IBM has been going great guns for Sun -- remember the Telestra announcement? Replacing how many Sun servers with a single IBM Mainframe running Linux S/370?

Sun is in everyone's sights. Their problem is McNealy's ego only allows him to perceive Microsoft (Bill Gates, actually) as the only possible enemy. The rest are unworthy of his attention.

That cute little penguin is going to cause a serious eclipse in the near future. World Domination doesn't mean just Microsoft.

not much but still:
http://www.linuxgram.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=108&ai d=12102

How about "SuSE layoffs less than 1% of planned Dell layoffs" - see this

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Check this story out...
For those too lazy to read it, it basically says that the P4 will only run Redhat and TurboLinux. Kinda odd how the most commercialized distros work w/ the P4 :-/

In other words, Sun's kit assists you in a piece of free software to another platform. Call the cops! There's much sound and fury here, but no real substance. It sounds to me that it's more a matter of somebody getting their knickers twisted about their Free software being used on a closed platform than anything else.

I've decided that these folks at LinuxGram are officially clueless. Take this story (linked from the GPL article), for instance, about KDE and Debian. Among other things, it makes the rather dubious assertions that "[d]espite widespread pressure from the developer community, KDE was left out of... Debian... because of it [sic] wasn't GPL," and that "KDE finally agreed to dual-license Qt".

<trite>Move along, folks, nothing to see here.</trite>

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(Thanks to Jim)

Here's another, somewhat more informative story on this.

timothy