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Groklaw Turns One
JuliusRV writes "Today is Groklaw's one-year anniversary! As PJ writes, 'What a difference a year makes. When we started, all the headlines were saying that SCO was going to destroy Linux or at least make it cry. Now, looking around today, I see almost everyone predicting SCO's imminent doom instead. I think the truth, as usual, isn't in the headlines, and that it's somewhere in between those two extremes.' Thanks, PJ and all other Groklawyers, keep up the good work!"
...but I'm sure it was simply an innocent mistake on your part.
First, let me start with congratulating PJ + the rest for the fine work on this SCO thing.
That being said, Groklaw is pretty much headed for self-destruction and irrelevancy.
The constituency over there is a mainly a strange new breed of Linux Zealot that has very little IT experience. That makes them even more mouth-foaming than your Slashdot Linux Zealot, who at least has some sense of perspective on real world systems. (I recall the story about the MS SFU download -- slashbots were like "NFS for Windows? Cool!" Growlawers were fiercy frothing flamebait.)
Next, PJ is basically a Board Nazi, and she doesn't know it. Her definition of a "troll" is someone who expresses an opinion that she disagrees with, while any sort of juvenile "Darl is a goatfucker' comments are allowed. This leads to illogical and capricious post deleting sprees, often taking some interesting discussion along with it. PJ doesn't seem to have a lot of experience in the 'online community' thing, so she's unaware that her behavior is going to cause a backlash and it's going to hit hard.
Then you have that whole "FUD insurance" thing that she's involved in which at worst frankly smells like a scam, and at best is just a FUD broadcasting mechinism.
Basically Groklaw has only worked so well because (1) SCO/Darl are so ridiculously wrong and have no case, and (2) Everyone in the Linux world is unified against SCO.
Once you take those constraints away, there's not much left but some opinionated people. As soon as they get into flamey territory, and the post deleting starts, the place is going to explode.
Aww, boohoo. Its flamebait when the exact same evidence the grandparent used against SCO is turned against slashdot via OSDN and VA Software? Whats good for the goose is good for the gander kids. I thought /. was about the free exchange of ideas. Whoever modded that as flamebait should have their moderation priviledge revoked as a blatant abuser. My post contained nothing but facts, and the same facts that got the grandparent post modded +5. Thus proving once again, this website is full of shit and is truly as doomed to fail as SCO. I was modded not for being wrong, but for being so Right that it hurt.