If there was an awared for paucity of journalism, then it should perhaps be awarded to “Linux Business News” editor Maureen O’Gara for what amounts to a shabby, intrusive and ultimately worthless act of investigative reporting. I’m not sure what the prize should be, what about the privilege of being ritually swallowed by the shambling idiot-god Cthulu? Harsh… harsh but fair I think.
The dispute between celebrity-blogger Pamela Jones of IT Law blog, “Groklaw” and technology muck-raker O’Gara has been well known since O’Gara’s early and largely unsubstantiated claims about the SCO vs IBM lawsuit were rigorously debunked by Jones and friends. It seems she has taken the professional rivalry rather personally, seeking to destroy the anonymity that Jones has so rigorously guarded.
In today’s shock revelations we learn that PJ lives in a house, in New York and may possibly be/have been/have met a Jehovah’ Witness - news about as relevant in a Law/Technology context as what I had for dinner last night. Jones was not there, when O’gara came a’knocking, and from this she infers that Jones must be on the run.
I have do not doubt that PJ will ride this storm - and I think Maureen O’Gara has pathetically underestimated the resolve of Jones and her associates if she expects such crude bullying tactics to work.
UPDATE: So the decided to get rid of her?
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