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Grokking SCO's Demise
An anonymous reader writes "You have already heard the news that the SCO Group's US$5 billion threat against Linux is effectively finished. It was the Web site Groklaw.net that broke the news and posted the complete 102-page ruling; after that, it was picked up by mainstream media and trade press.
In fact, it's Groklaw that has covered every aspect of SCO's legal fights with Linux vendors IBM , Novell and Red Hat and Linux users Daimler Chrysler and AutoZone ever since paralegal Pamela Jones started the site as a hobby in 2003. This feature does a great job of chronicling Groklaws' hand in the demise of SCO's case."
Didn't you get the memo? Comments are now like articles: people don't really read them. They are rated by how quickly they come out and how long they are.
does anyone seriously think that all the brilliant legal and technical analyses come from a mid-twenties paralegal?
I find that hard to believe, particularly since some of the analytical papers are long and yet precise. All this writing - and there is lots of it on GL - takes quite some time to write, to edit, to back up with facts, to think through. Plus all the time it takes to scour all possible info channels, keep a team of volunteers working and coordinate it, keep up with tons of internal and external communication, keep up with keeping a blog forum "clean" with a heavy hand, keep up with the latest development in free and open source software etc.
While I believe there may actually be a Pamela Jones, however elusive she may be, I strongly doubt that she is the only one running this site. She will need legal advice on practically everything in the blog, given the litigatioous nature of its rivals, she will need a sophisticated back office system for data storage, analysis, retrieval and processing and a superior mind to keep all these aspects from falling apart, keeping her minions at bay and generally run a tight ship, both on the inside and the outside. The "biography" of said Pamela Jones most certainly gives no hint at these international leadership qualities, neither in elite education, nor in any previous jobs or projects.
She must be the only open source "leader", who does not appear in public. Bizarre, if you ask me, and I can only surmise that her legal knowledge and expertise wouldn't hold up in a 3minute chit chat with a legal mind.
Either that, or she is butt ugly.
five years! Just to throw out what folks who knew better (read: those of us who lived/worked/breathed Linux) saw instantly as an obvious cock-and-bull scam by a dying dot-bust corporation.
Ahh the hubris of the lucky.
Just as many people claimed OJ was guilty, before ever hearing a shred of evidence, solely because he was a black man, so to did many people claim SCO was full of crap before ever hearing a shred of evidence (because they didn't want them to be right). It turned out in both cases to be true, but that was only luck, since in both cases the people jumping to conclusions had no facts, and only belief to guide them.
It's like some relative saying "I told you so" after you crashed and burned at something. They just wanted you to fail, and the fact that you did was lucky for them.
Bask in the glory, but don't for second believe that you "knew" the outcome of this. You guessed the outcome, based on what you wanted to believe to be true. And thakfully, that turned out to be the case.
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