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Groklaw Refutes LinuxWorld Story About AIX Sources
rimberg writes "Maureen O'Gara printed a story about what allegedly was said in the last court hearing between IBM and SCO. Groklaw had eyewitnesses at the hearing. None of them reports seeing Ms. O'Gara there. Furthermore, none of them heard any of what she 'reports' about IBM supposedly claiming not to be able to find code. Let me repeat that. IBM never said anything like that, according to groklaw eyewitnesses."
Ayayay no me gusta!!!
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Groklaw is heavily censored and always has been. PJ deletes/hides posts on a regular basis.
Groklaw might have once been a useful site, but between her money grab with the Linux "insurance" scam and her nazgul posting policies, any credibility afforded Groklaw is LONG since gone.
PLEASE take anything you read on that site with a grain of salt.
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Yeesh... I think you found the missing picture of tubgirl's face.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
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1. The McMansion Tax Break--
Taxpayers can deduct interest on loans of up to $1 million used to buy one or two personal residences.
Would you limit the home mortgage interest deduction so that it subsidizes the purchase of one basic home, and would you redirect some of the tax savings to help qualified renters purchase a basic home?
Yes.
2. The Inequitable Home Equity Break--
Congress offers less than certain homeowners preferential deduction for consumer loans.
Would you limit the deduction for interest on up to $100,000 of consumer loans (called "home equity loans") that benefits only homeowners who itemize?
Yes.
3. Poorest Families, Poorest Child Care--
Tax credits help working parents who owe taxes pay for child care costs.
Would you reform the child care credit do that it helps low - and moderate - income working parents who don't owe taxes and can at least afford their child care costs?
Yes.
4. Social Security's Insecurity--
The Social Security Trust Fund is likely to be bankrupt by about 2042. Yet the highest paid Americans don't pay Social Security taxes on all of their wages.
Why not fix Social Security's long-term solvency problem by making taxes apply on all of their wages?
I would.
5. A Sick Policy on Health Insurance--
An employee's health insurance premiums paid at work are exempt from income tax - no matter how deluxe a policy that tax payer chooses.
Should the tax exemption for an employee's health insurance premium paid at work be limited to a basic premium for a basic policy, and would you deny the tax break to managers if their employers paid more of their premiums than they paid for rank-and-file workers.
See Response to Question 10.
6. The Oh-So-Golden-Years Pension Break--
Top managers not only get bigger pensions, they also get enormous tax breaks on their employers' pension contributions.
Would you stop giving tax breaks for much higher pension contributions for highly paid employees than for rank-and-file employees?
Yes.
7. The Great Pension Robbery--
Forfeiture rules can deprive employees of pension accounts crucial to their long-term security.
Should Congress prohibit pension plans from deriving employees of their pensions after they have been employed for at least three years?
Yes.
8. Education Out of Reach--
Congress helps students pay for college by giving them, or their parents, tuition tax credits that reduce their taxes.
Would you reform the tax credits for college tuition to help households who don't owe income taxes but often need the assistance the most?
Yes.
9. Single and Paying for It--
A single person who doesn't earn enough to escape poverty may still owe income taxes.
Why shouldn't Congress do for single persons what it does for a family of four - exempt them from income tax until their income rises well above the poverty level?
It should.
10. Medicare's Drift Toward Insolvency--
By 2026, Medicare is unlikely to be able to pay for all of its hospital and nursing home bills.
And everytime someone tells the truth about groklaw, someone like you whines that there is no proof.
How are they supposed to provide proof of DELETED posts? Read groklaw regularly and you'll see compelling pro-sco posts disappear on a regular basis.
what Slashdot's next story will be?
Another blow for journalistic redundancy.
insecurity asks the wrong question irritation gives the wrong answer
Really, Slashdot as of late can easily be described as a "large and unfortunate string of editorial blunders and mismanagement".
Nothing new here. Hey, for a free service it's tolerable. Barely. I'd rate Slashdot on the same level as Fark.com. Except they know at Fark that no one cares about what they say. :)
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From the Editors of LinuxWorld Magazine
October 25, 2004
Summary
LinuxWorld Magazine's LAMP Technologies Editor, Martin C. Brown, writes an open letter to LWM readers and the Linux community, on behalf of the editorial team for the magazine.
Dear LinuxWorld Readers,
Publishing is a fickle business, and in today's world where your comments and responses can immediately be denounced and exposed, even more so.
There has been a significant amount of discussion regarding recent Maureen O'Gara stories published in LinuxBusinessWeek regarding the SCO/IBM case. As we understand, as of today, she is standing by her story and actively seeking to unseal the court documents mentioned in her story. However LinuxWorld and Linux Business Week are two separate publications.
We'd like to start by pointing out that these news reports are published (and indeed, Maureen writes for) LinuxBusinessWeek, not LinuxWorld.com. Yes, it can appear as if the information is published by LinuxWorld, but the content belongs to www.LinuxBusinessWeek.com. Linux Business Week is controlled and managed by a completely different editorial team than us. We realize that the distinction between the two Web sites and the magazine isn't clear at the moment, and along with other visual presentation issues of the Web site(s) we are addressing as a matter of urgency.
The editorial team would also like our readers to understand that we at LinuxWorld are not unaware of the issues raised by our readers. Comments, advice, and opinions have been reaching us editors, both here at LinuxWorld and through other sites such as Groklaw and Slashdot, and they don't go unnoticed. Indeed, comments and discussions among the editors have followed every article published, often with even more in depth discussions on the ongoing fallout from similar news stories. Some of our editors have even threatened to resign over the issue, such is the strength of feeling amongst the editorial team.
While our role as editors is to marshall and organize content, there are limits to our capabilities and it's not within our power to go checking every single fact and detail reported by the writers and reporters who provide material for our magazine and Web site. This is especially true for the writers who have been providing content for many years. Obviously, in the case of the news stories provided by Maureen O'Gara, it is impossible for the editors at LinuxWorld to read and verify material that is published in any of our dozen or so sister publications or other sites and magazines.
In a recent article (http://www.linuxbusinessweek.com/story/46800.htm) on the SCO/IBM court case, a number of facts and information has, based on information and commentary supplied by other groups, suggested ostensible (albeit unproven) mis-reporting by Maureen O'Gara. We can't really comment on the accuracy or otherwise of her reporting she provides to LinuxBusinessWeek; none of the editorial team signing this letter were at the hearing. It does seem, however, that based on the available evidence from Groklaw and other parties who were present at the hearing that there are more people disagreeing than agreeing with Maureen's account of the proceedings.
Therefore we at LinuxWorld.com (the Web site) and LinuxWorld Magazine (the print magazine), would like to make it clear that we do not approve, contract, or employ Maureen O'Gara. We have no association with Maureen O'Gara of any kind. This obviously means that we are unable to approve or veto any of the stories that Maureen O'Gara has written, irrespective of their source.
We also want to point out that as editors of the best Linux-focused magazine on the planet (http://www.sys-con.com/2002/PR/05132004.cfm), we are totally and 100% committed to providing unbiased, reasoned and intelligent information on the Linux platform. We at LinuxWorld and our supporters at SYS-CON are not, and never have been, supported or driven by anything but the desire to re