Groklaw Declares Victory, No More Articles 265
tomhudson writes "Pamela Jones announced that as of May 16th, she will no longer be updating groklaw: 'I have decided that Groklaw will stop publishing new articles on our anniversary, May 16. I know a lot of you will be unhappy to hear it, so let me briefly explain, because my decision is made and it's firm. In a simple sentence, the reason is this: the crisis SCO initiated over Linux is over, and Linux won. SCO as we knew it is no more."
Re:Shouldn't they focus on other threats? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:"Google doesn't need our help" (Score:4, Interesting)
I saw it as a magnifying glass that hovered over cases, which could propel relatively unknown lawsuits from the dusty desk of a clerk to the eyes of the mainstream media, causing a discussion in the worst case, and a reaction/correction in the best case scenario.
For the short time I knew it, I was quite fond of it, and it had earned a good reputation. Sad to see it go.
Celebration in Chicago (Score:4, Interesting)
I have an idea.
Why don't we have a party in Chicago to celebrate?
We could have Pam come and all of us who work in Open Source could buy pizza, drink way too many sugary caffinated drinks!
We could even have a pizza in the shape of SCO and slice the baby up and eat it!
-Hack
Re:Celebration in Chicago (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, she is invited anyway.
I still say we should have a party.
-Hack
Re:Don't forget about Groklaw's dark side: censors (Score:5, Interesting)
Wasn't that well-documented when I found out about it; only discovered Groklaw's unofficial comment policies myself due to a random cryptic troll comment on Slashdot, and that article is newish [zdnet.com]. Basically they delete comments that go against Groklaw's POV and the users posting them, then delete comments referencing the fact they've deleted comments or banned users to conceal the fact they're hiding stuff from their readers. They also "sandbox" comments so that the poster thinks the comment is visible but only they can see it. Oh, and the users they delete effectively become unpersons: the comments are re-attributed to Anonymous and their profiles 404.
Groklaw isn't the only site that does this kind of thing; Digg has a similar history deleting critical comments (most egregiously to make it seem no-one objected when they got caught secretly soliciting money for front-page posts on the site) and a similar "shadowban" mechanism for concealing from users that they've been banned and none of their comments are showing up. Several other sites use comment deletion to stop their readers hearing about contradictory opinions too. No matter who does it,it makes it hard to trust that site.