Groklaw: One today : )
p2pnet.net News:- grok (v) [Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land, 1961] /1: A Martian word meaning literally ‘to drink’ and metaphorically ‘to be one with’. The emphatic form is ‘grok in fullness’. /2: To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. /3: Used of programs, may connote merely sufficient understanding.
"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."
Thus writes Groklaw’s Pamela Jones on the occasion of her site’s First Birthday.
Jones is a paralegal who started Groklaw "to learn how to blog, because an attorney and I were discussing the possibility of me doing some telecommuting work for him, including work on his blog," as she says in a LinuxOnline interview here, going on:
"I put up one article to practice, which I never thought anyone in the world would ever see (ironically, about the Grokster decision and how I admired David Boies’ Napster legal documents). I was just writing to the air.
"My thought then was to try to explain legal news stories as they came along. I was forever reading /. [Slashdot] comments about legal news and most of the comments would be way off, and I realized that there is a hunger for someone to explain what it all means, what the process is, how things play out, to people who aren’t in the legal field. I didn’t have a slashdot account, and any time I tried to comment, it mostly ended up moderated a zero, meaning nobody read it, including probably the moderators, so I gave up on that. : ) I also wanted to play with graphic/text interaction, just for some creative fun."
That was then, and this is now and Groklaw has led the way with news and commentary on all things SCO.
"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is …" says Jones in her birthday blog here.
"Hmm… you don’t suppose? …
"How weirdly coincidental: Recently Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Linux ‘customers will never really know who stands behind this product.’
"Why, that’s exactly what SCO is saying in its complaint. It is known that SCO is having money troubles.
"Could it be… ??"
