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Jones' articles have appeared in ''[[Linux Journal]]'', [[LWN.net|LWN]], ''LinuxWorld Magazine'', ''Linux Today'', and [[LinuxWorld.com]]. She also wrote a monthly opinion column for the [[UK]] print publication ''[[Linux User and Developer]]''. She is one of the contributors to the book ''Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution''.<ref name="OS2.0">{{cite book| title=Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution| author=Chris Dibona | coauthors=Danese Cooper, and Mark Stone| publisher= O'Reilly Media| year=2005| isbn=0-596-00802-3}}</ref> |
Jones' articles have appeared in ''[[Linux Journal]]'', [[LWN.net|LWN]], ''LinuxWorld Magazine'', ''Linux Today'', and [[LinuxWorld.com]]. She also wrote a monthly opinion column for the [[UK]] print publication ''[[Linux User and Developer]]''. She is one of the contributors to the book ''Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution''.<ref name="OS2.0">{{cite book| title=Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution| author=Chris Dibona | coauthors=Danese Cooper, and Mark Stone| publisher= O'Reilly Media| year=2005| isbn=0-596-00802-3}}</ref> |
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According to Maureen O'Gara of Client Server News, despite Pamela Jones notoriety in the Linux Community, Jones is not nor has ever been a contributor to the Linux effort and has never contributed technology to any open source project. Maureen O'Gara of Client Server News, an outspoken critic of Jones, has publically commented that her blog and its messages are self-promoting and have not advanced open source or its impact, but primarily provides commentary on lawsuits between SCO and IBM which are unrelated to the Linux effort. |
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Client Server News claimed to have investigated Pamela Jones and further claimed she was a 60 year old Jehovah's witness whose blog is funded as a propaganda tool by IBM and who lives in the New York metropolitan area. |
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote, "Jones has made her reputation as a top legal IT reporter from her work detailing the defects with SCO's case against IBM and Linux. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that her work has contributed enormously to everyone's coverage of SCO's cases."<ref> |
Jones is widely respected by journalists and people inside the Linux community. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote, "Jones has made her reputation as a top legal IT reporter from her work detailing the defects with SCO's case against IBM and Linux. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that her work has contributed enormously to everyone's coverage of SCO's cases."<ref> |
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|accessdate=2010-06-28}}</ref> The resulting outcry prompted the website's publisher to distance itself from the publication by O'Gara and publicly apologize to Jones.<ref name=linuxbusinessnews>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050516003713/www.linuxbusinessnews.com ''To Our Valued Readers''], Linux Business News, posted 13 May 2005 (archived 16 May 2005 at the [[Internet Archive]]; message appears near top in box with a light yellow background)</ref> O'Gara's column LinuxGram was subsequently suspended from all outlets of the owner Sys-con Media.<ref>http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5701517-7.html</ref> |
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SCO executives [[Darl McBride]] and [[Blake Stowell]] have |
SCO executives [[Darl McBride]] and [[Blake Stowell]] have also denigrated Jones and claimed that she works for [[IBM]].<ref name=IBM-621-E18>[http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/IBM-621-E18.pdf Primary court document "Exhibit 18" filed by SCO 2/10/2006]. [http://techupdate.zdnet.com/special_report/Face_to_Face:_Darl_McBride.html Face to Face: McBride outlines SCO's lawsuit strategy], zdnet.com. [http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/32990.html Writing Linux History: Groklaw's Role in the SCO Controversy], linuxinsider.com.</ref> Jones has denied this allegation,<ref name=zdnet134733>a) |
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Pamela Jones, commonly known as PJ, is the creator and editor of Groklaw, an award-winning website that covers legal news of interest to the free and open-source software community. Jones is an Open Source advocate who previously trained and worked as a paralegal.[1]
Jones' articles have appeared in Linux Journal, LWN, LinuxWorld Magazine, Linux Today, and LinuxWorld.com. She also wrote a monthly opinion column for the UK print publication Linux User and Developer. She is one of the contributors to the book Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution.[2]
Grok Projects
Groklaw
Pamela Jones (PJ) has a blog, Groklaw, which covers open source legal issues, notably the SCO-Linux controversies. Her stated purpose for starting the blog can be found in the first interview she ever granted, for Linux Online, where she said:[1]
I started my blog just before the SCO case was filed. Originally, my purpose was just trying 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. I had no knowledge of blogging, so I quickly got Radio, because he used it, and 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.
Groklaw's Mission Statement says it is meant to be several things:[3]
It's an experiment, something not quite like anything that has been done before. It's primarily a working site, not a discussion forum. First, it's a journalistic enterprise, with interviews, research, and reporting of legal events important to the FOSS community.... Second, we are applying open-source principles to research to the extent that they apply.... Third, it's an antiFUD site.
Groklaw has covered the various lawsuits involving the SCO Group in detail but also covers general legal news of interest to the Free Software and Open Source community. The site has won numerous awards.[4]
Grokline
Jones also launched Grokline, a Unix ownership timeline project, in February 2004.
Grokdoc
Grokdoc's goal is to create a useful manual on basic linux tasks that new linux users will find simple and clear and easy to follow, using what they learn from their study.
PJ
Jones reveals very little personal information, as she considers it private and has expressed from the beginning a strong preference for avoiding fame. Here are the reasons she gave in the early days for using just her initials:[5]
I originally wanted to stay anonymous, in a sense, by just saying PJ. Eventually media attention and other factors made it impossible to remain just PJ but I would have if I could have. I have no desire to be famous, for one thing. And I have been creatively influenced by Scott McCloud's work. He points out in Understanding Comics (p. 45–51) in a section on iconic representation that people respond most strongly to a drawing of a character that simplifies to the point that anyone can identify with the character. I guess I was hoping for that effect. In other words, I was hoping people could assume whatever they wanted and just focus on what I said, rather than on who was saying it. For that reason, I chose PJ, because it could be anyone, either sex, any nationality, anyone and no one in particular. I wanted participation by anyone interested in the SCO story. No politics. Nothing extraneous. Just an effort to locate and provide evidence that could be useful. I knew the community could answer SCO, if they just knew what was needed. And they have.
Media controversy
Jones is widely respected by journalists and people inside the Linux community. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols wrote, "Jones has made her reputation as a top legal IT reporter from her work detailing the defects with SCO's case against IBM and Linux. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to say that her work has contributed enormously to everyone's coverage of SCO's cases."[6]
During the first week of May 2005, Jones was smeared by Maureen O'Gara in an "exposé" appearing on the website Linux Business News.[7] The resulting outcry prompted the website's publisher to distance itself from the publication by O'Gara and publicly apologize to Jones.[8] O'Gara's column LinuxGram was subsequently suspended from all outlets of the owner Sys-con Media.[9]
SCO executives Darl McBride and Blake Stowell have also denigrated Jones and claimed that she works for IBM.[10] Jones has denied this allegation,[11] as did IBM in a court filing.[12][13]
Publications
- Articles in Linux Journal, Linux World, Linux Today, LWN.
- Monthly column in LinuxUser, a UK print publication.
- Contributor to Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution.[2]
See also
Notes and references
- ^ a b "Interview with Pamela Jones, editor of Groklaw". Linux Online. 2003-07-31. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
- ^ a b Chris Dibona (2005). Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 0-596-00802-3.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ "Groklaw Mission Statement". 2007-01-29. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
- ^ See Groklaw for a list of the site's awards.
- ^ "SCO's 1Q 2005 Earnings Conference Call — transcript". Groklaw. 2005-04-18. Retrieved 2007-02-18. PJ quotes this passage herself, and explains that she provided it to a Wikipedia editor in 2003.
- ^ "Yes, there is a PJ".
- ^ Steven Vaughan-Nichols (2005-05-10). "SCO's Legal Wrangles Take an Odd, Personal Turn". Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ^ To Our Valued Readers, Linux Business News, posted 13 May 2005 (archived 16 May 2005 at the Internet Archive; message appears near top in box with a light yellow background)
- ^ http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-5701517-7.html
- ^ Primary court document "Exhibit 18" filed by SCO 2/10/2006. Face to Face: McBride outlines SCO's lawsuit strategy, zdnet.com. Writing Linux History: Groklaw's Role in the SCO Controversy, linuxinsider.com.
- ^ a)
Jones, Pamela (2004-03-05). "Letter to the Editor: No IBM-Groklaw connection". ZDNet. San Francisco, CA 94105: CBS Interactive. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
I don't have any connection to IBM professionally or personally.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|trans_title=,|separator=,|month=, and|coauthors=(help)CS1 maint: location (link) and b) Jones, Pamela (2004-03-05). "PJ Responds to the Smear Campaign Against Groklaw". Groklaw. Pamela Jones. Retrieved 2010-06-29.IBM does not sponsor Groklaw and it hasn't given equipment or anything else to Groklaw. Groklaw is independent of any outside influence. It's a noncommercial site. Groklaw is me and a world full of volunteers who believe in what we are doing.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|trans_title=,|separator=,|month=, and|coauthors=(help) - ^ Primary court document "Exhibit 19" filed by IBM 2/10/2006
- ^ CBRonline article "SCO blames Groklaw for IP licensing disappointment",[dead link] April 15, 2005.
External links
- Groklaw
- Grokline UNIX Ownership History Project
- Grokdoc
- Schestowitz, Roy (November 7, 2007). "Interview With Pamela Jones, Editor of Groklaw". Earthweb.com.
- Pla, Pep (June 2007). "Pamela Jones: A committee of one (interview)". 10 Questions.
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