Groklaw Torch Handed To Mark Webbink 47
eldavojohn writes "A month ago we read a Eulogy for Groklaw, but now PJ has announced that Groklaw will not be shutting down. Instead, it is now Mark Webbink's Groklaw 2.0. If you don't know who he is, Webbink is a member of the board of the SFLC and was General Counsel at Red Hat. Legal FOSS news will continue to flow."
Spicy (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Put your emotions down and think it through. (Score:5, Insightful)
SCO's little mind game worked on you, didn't it?
During the trial SCO made a claim to the court that P.J. was not a real person, but an IBM shill. IBM vehemently denied that claim, again to the court.
If you've had any experience with the law, one thing you'll have learned is that judges hate is to be lied to. I guarantee you that SCO had some private investigators check on P.J. Had any evidence existed that P.J. was an IBM shill, I also guarantee you that SCO would have presented that evidence to the court with trumpets blaring. What better way to prove to the judge that IBM was the bad guy?
On the other hand, it would have been pointless for SCO to publicly prove that P.J. was a real person. It would have made them look like paranoid idiots, and it would only have helped IBM. So SCO said nothing more, and instead just let the accusation itself continue to taint P.J. It's one of the oldest dirty tricks in the book, and it clearly worked on you.
Is P.J. a real person? No doubt in my mind. Is "Pamela Jones" her real name? Who knows? Pen names and pseudonyms are as old as reporting itself. But if P.J. was an IBM shill, I am certain that SCO would have presented ironclad proof long ago.