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The Voice of Groklaw
Random BedHead Ed writes "LinuxPlanet has an interesting interview with Pamela Jones, the paralegal and blogger who created Groklaw. Groklaw has become an indespensible site for geeks who need even more SCO updates than even /. provides - and if the site's inclusion in the footnotes of one of IBM's court documents is any indication, it's been handy for people involved in the case as well. No wonder the site won Best News Site in O'Reilly's OSDir.com Editor's Choice Awards for 2003. It shows how useful and influental a well-run collaborative website can be."
I don't buy it. The author of Grok Law is a paralegal, not a real laywer. Her claim to fame is that she's only one step ahead of all the Linux advocates who spout broad generalities about legal issues they really know nothing about in the SCO-IBM dispute.
I suspect that the site's relevance and appeal will dim considerably when the court starts handing down some harsh rulings in SCO's favor as its discovered that IBM engineers improperly released code into the Linux development stream.
The only way such rulings can happen is if the judges are corrupt, since the facts are not on SCO's side.
How do you know this if they haven't been released yet? Do you work for IBM? Or are you just repeating all the propaganda you're getting from Linux zealots?
Maybe because I realize that I'm a disenfranchised geek, unlike other /. readers, I never pay much attention to the SCO suit. I don't read Groklaw, since it seems the latest darling of ex-dot-bombers, you know, the kind who use 'teh', and own PS2 machines even though they're 30. Don't kid yourselves folks, the opinion of every geek on Slashdot comes to out exactly nothing.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
NIGGERS!