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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:03 PM EST

OSDir.com on the O'Reilly Network has just notified me that Groklaw has been awarded their 2003 Editor's Choice Award for Best News Website. They tell me there will be an article on the O'Reilly Network at 4 PM PST today. I am, of course, thrilled.


  


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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: seantellis on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:09 PM EST
A well deserved accolade. Congratulations.

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Sean Ellis (sellis@geo-removethis-cities.com)

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Chaosd on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:11 PM EST
Well done, and well deserved PJ.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Raoul_Duke on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:11 PM EST
Well done PJ, you deserve it!

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Pulitzer, too
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:11 PM EST

PJ:

As a former journalist, I've worked with Pulitzer Prizer winners, and I can say
you've been doing Pulitzer level work. A pity you don't have a conventional
media organization behind you.

Stuart Thayer

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Congratulations!
Authored by: Tom on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:12 PM EST

Thoroughly deserved. Without this site, this SCO nonsense would have driven me insane a long time ago. Groklaw is the perfect antidote.

PJ for president!

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:12 PM EST
Can't agree more, congratulations and keep it going!!!

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Jude on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:14 PM EST
This is news? We all knew this a long time ago.

Nice work, PJ. Please keep it up.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:16 PM EST
Congratulations PJ, for over-seeing everything, and to everyone who has
contributed with the research and transcripts. To say Groklaw is essential
reading is probably the greatest understatement ever!

By the way, do you think the substantial code infringements are because some
kooky patent clerk let oldSCO patent blank lines and remark statements? :-)

Steve A - avid reader and lurker

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: plungermonkey on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:17 PM EST
Congratulations!

If there was anyone that deserved this award it's PJ and Groklaw. A site that
is truly most exceptional :o)

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An ignorant person knows no better, a studid person knows better and still does
what is wrong. Which one are you?

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Sri Lumpa on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:19 PM EST

Congrats PJ, I hope that it is only the first of many recognitions you will get
for your outstanding work here.

And thanks to everyone else that helps her (MathFox with the site, Newsome with
getting the court filings, Darron for the lawyer's perspetive...).


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I do not suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

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Best News Site
Authored by: Yobgod on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:20 PM EST
Huzzah for Groklaw!

Just remember that the news (and even moreso the legal research and analysis) is
the goal, not accolades.

Even so... Huzzah!

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I woudl like to congratulate everyone
Authored by: p0ssum on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:22 PM EST
PJ, MathFox, Frank Sorenson and all the others that not only visit, but
contribute to this site.

PJ you have started a revolution, I hope you are ready for this;-)

Congrats again to everyone and I thank you all for letting me be a part of it!!

Go Groklaw!

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There are 10 types of people in this world, those that understand binary and
those that do not.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Jadeclaw on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:22 PM EST
Congratulations!
A well deserved honor for truly outstanding work.


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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:25 PM EST

Congratulations, PJ!

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Well done!
Authored by: the_flatlander on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:32 PM EST
Nice going PJ!

If anyone doubted that the pen, (or keyboard), was mightier than the law suit,
they should check out Groklaw.


TFL

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: gadget on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:37 PM EST
I'M SHOCKED!!!

Tell us something we don't know Oreilly Network. Congratulations PJ. You certainly deserve this. Too bad it doesn't come with a monetary award. I would encourage everyone to make a donation to PJ and help her offset the brilliant work she is doing here.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: kberrien on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:38 PM EST
An excellent holiday gift!

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: hombresecreto on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:38 PM EST
Congratulations PJ! Glad to see it.

hombresecreto

~8-)

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: brenda banks on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:40 PM EST
WTG PJ
keep racking them up
accolades to you and all of groklaw


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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Hiro Protagonist on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:40 PM EST
Congratulations PJ and everyone.

Groklaw: Bringing "Shock and Awe" to those who misguide and
misinform.

Hiro

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:41 PM EST
Could there really have been any question? The only debate is whether Groklaw
is better than all the other news sites put together.

Perhaps this will make the effort a little more tolerable, and the eventual
victory all the more sweet.

Way to go, Pamela, and all the elves behind the scenes!

Thad Beier

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Congratulations Wonderful!!
Authored by: jog on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:44 PM EST
jog

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: lnx4me on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:44 PM EST

All I can say is congratulations to PJ and the Groklaw community which is much more knowledgable and active than I.

thank you

bob

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: sef on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:50 PM EST
clap clap clap clap clap clap clap clap

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: seeks2know on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:58 PM EST
PJ,

You are an inpiration to us all.

It's great to see you get the public recognition you deserve.

And it's a great testimony to the power of collaborative work - and a
demonstration of what is possible when people work together.

Congratulations to our leader, PJ - and to all of those who do the research and
make this all worthwhile!



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The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the
question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. - Pierre Abelard

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: rand on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 12:58 PM EST
Awesome.

PJ, it's been a thrill to witness the birth of an internet sensation. Bask,
bask.

MathFox, you've put together the smoothest, most coherent collaboration site on
the web. I don't know if Vulpes velox ever has time to bask, but feel free to
sport a foxy grin.


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The Wright brothers were not the first to fly an aircraft...they were the first
to LAND an aircraft. (IANAL and whatever)

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: john82a on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:01 PM EST
Absolutely terrific, well done. I think we all feel such pride in what you've
been able to achieve - with such good humour and sound thinking.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: pfusco on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:02 PM EST
well done and very well deserved :)

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only the soul matters in the end

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: moogy on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:07 PM EST
I usually try not to post 'me too' comments
but this is an occassion to make an exception.

CONGRATS! PJ

The bad news: The search for intelligent life forms
has failed so far.

The good news: They'll be leaving the SCO offices soon
to try looking elsewhere.


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Mike Tuxford - irc.fdfnet.net #Groklaw
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win. --Gandhi

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: pfusco on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:10 PM EST
Its already up PJ

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only the soul matters in the end

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Jan on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:12 PM EST
Well deserved. Congratulations to PJ and thanks to everyone that has rubbed
two brain cells together here and posted the results :-)



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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: eggplant37 on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:15 PM EST
Wow!! Many congratulations are due, and gee... what a neat Christmas present,
huh? PJ, I'm dumbfounded and amazed at what you created. I can only hope that
one day my own work will be so well recognized. You are an inspiration.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: kbq on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:17 PM EST
Well deserved, Pamela!

Now sit in front of the fire with your laptop and hot toddie and *enjoy* your
weekend!

Kevin

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:23 PM EST
PJ,

As an anonymous lurker, who has only been reading, I must congratulate you on
this award. The clarity and reason you and the other members here bring to the
issues are a breath of fresh air in this world of FUD-laden press releases and
the use of legal manuevering as a business model.

Keep it up; everyone (especially you, PJ) are doing a fine job.

Your Silent Fan
-Robert

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: brt on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:24 PM EST
Hip-Hip-Hurray!

Congrats, PJ and all contributors.

Happy Holidays to all.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: GATECH96 on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:47 PM EST
Congratulations to PJ and all for a well deserved award.

Have a great Christmas Holiday!

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:47 PM EST
YES!
GrokLaw is a perfect reflection of the OS it helps protect.

Clean, clear, stable and growing in popularity with an unstopable force.

It is obvious to annyone who contributes or visits frequently that this is MORE
than just deserved.

Congrats.



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No guns, no bombs...just brains
The way it should be.

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Congrats PJ !!
Authored by: BC on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:48 PM EST
I am so happy for you.

The profit motive types will never understand the sheer
joy of peer recognition.

O'Reilly no less! It's well earned.

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Congratulations!!!
Authored by: Bill The Cat on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:51 PM EST
This is a well deserved and hard-earned honor for you PJ. You've put in the
research, the hours, and the effort. You've endured the trolls and yet
continue to provide meaningful insight into the SCO saga.

Thanks for all you've done and Congratulations for a job well done!!!


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Bill Catz -
"The number of UNIX installations has grown to ten, with more
expected." -- UNIX Programmers Manual, 2nd Ed. June, 1972

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:54 PM EST
Congrats PJ, well deserved indeed.

Pierre

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: ddever on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:54 PM EST
Outstanding! Congratulations, PJ!

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: RoQ on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:55 PM EST
Congratulations, PJ, and Happy Holidays! I sent you your gift using the Amazon
contribution button. ;)

Cheers (and looking forward to Groklaw in '04),

--RoQ

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A Well Deserved Standing Ovation
Authored by: jrc on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 01:56 PM EST
PJ,

As a musician who has grown up on stage, I learned that standing ovations are
only to be given for perfomances that reach to the level of magic. Your work
here at Groklaw has been virtuosic and untiring. Best of all, it has summoned
forth an inspiring ethos of collaborative legal analysis within the community of
those who believe in keeping software free, open, and ethically sound. I stand
and applaud loudly for your magic: past, present, and yet to come. Bravo!
Bravo!... Bravo!

- JC





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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: doughnuts_lover on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:11 PM EST
Well deserved, PJ! Your Groklaw will be reminded as a milestone in law and in
community interaction. BTW: Times of war were always times where women have
conquered another piece of the cake. Women contributions to the Open Source
effort (or enter your personal definition here) were hardly visible before
Groklaw. Now you and your Groklaw have entered this men's world in a way like
a firework hits the sky at New Year's Eve.

Congratulations!
--doughnuts_lover

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: knutsondc on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:13 PM EST
PJ, We who regularly visit Groklaw already knew that you run the best legal news and commentary site on the web, but it's great to see you get the "official" recognition you so richly deserve. Congratulations!

Someday we won't have SCO to kick around any more -- IBM, Red Hat, and other Open Source users and developers will have kicked them out of court (and very likely out of the marketplace). I look forward to that day and Groklaw's coverage of other topics of interest. Thanks for all you do, PJ!

Darron

Darron C. Knutson

Attorney at Law
dckATdknutsonlaw.com

DISCLAIMER: My postings should not be construed as legal advice for any particular person reading them and no one should rely on them in the conduct of their business or other important matters. Just reading this posting doesn't make you a client of mine -- otherwise SCO's lawyers might accuse me of monopolizing the market for legal advice by giving it away for free {8^)

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: sjohnson on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:14 PM EST
Congradulations PJ. Well done.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: snorpus on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:15 PM EST
Woo-Hoo!!!!

Don't save the champagne for New Year's, PJ, you deserve to celebrate tonight.

Congratulations.

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73 & 88 de KQ3T

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: jeanph01 on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:20 PM EST
PJ,
You are the Linus Torvals of "Open Journalism". I mean, Linus has
the ability to take the best of every programmer, group that, and make it work
in a Open Source Software called linux. You, you make the same thing on Growlaw
but with the ideas of everyone who put comments or sends you email.
For my part, what has thrilled me the most, is the open letter that we sent to
Darl McBride. Everyone put it's two cents in it and the outcome was a great
work. Your were the driving force and it was fun and thrilling to work on it.
Even if it was only one or two cents!

So, keep up the good work, as always!

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Revenge of the Nerds
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:37 PM EST
Those 'rag-tag linux army', did it again!
Daniel Lyons could be Jealous.

To be serious: It's a recocnition, wich is good thing!

Thanks Sco, Daniel Lyons, Laura Didio and other...it's fun that you are around
here!!!

Jer

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:40 PM EST

Wooo hooo! Yeah, baby, yeah!

And other expressions of excitement, joy, etc.

Well done, PJ!

Regards,

Fredrick

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OT: SCO UK Partner Briefing from 21 November
Authored by: eamacnaghten on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:42 PM EST
Congrats to PJ on award

Back to business... The following is from the UK Partner Briefing from November. Nothing really new here, though enjoyable reading anyway...

http://uk.sco.com/events/Partner_Briefings/nov_2003/presentations/index.htm l

My favourite bits (from the Sco Company Update.) ..

"SCO = UNIX"

"Linux is an unauthorized derivative of Unix"

"Sco is attacking the GPL! WRONG!!"

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:43 PM EST
Seems perfectly justified to me PJ, Mathfox, the Court House crews, and the
transcribers are just as productive as O'Reilly's presses.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Cambo on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:55 PM EST
Well done PJ, and all contributors!

And Thank You, PJ. You have given the World a focus. Many people have been
angered by SCOX. GrokLaw has given them somewhere to direct their energies in a
constructive fashion. Without GrokLaw, many of us would not know what we could
do to help. Some may even have got themselves into trouble by taking matters
into their own hands, without understanding the consequences.

GrokLaw is a real inspiration. Many people, each with their own talents, have
become an incredibly powerful research group. Ideas and theories are bounced
around, facts and processes are explained, all in considered and considerate
fashion. I know it has given me an insight into the worlds of Corporate America,
Law (in the US AND overseas), journalism (or lack, thereof ;-) ), Linux, Unix,
and cooperation.

Again, Thank You PJ, and everyone else. I look forward to following the rest of
GrokLaw's coverage of SCOX, and whatever happens after that.

So, as a teetotaller, I raise my mug of tea to you all, wish you all a Merry
Christmas, and fully anticipate a Happy New Year (especially 23rd January) !



Cambo

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Will You Marry Me?
Authored by: cc on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 02:56 PM EST
Does that mean you'll marry me now?

Oh, wait. I'm already married!

Congratulations, anyway! The honor is well deserved.

You are the perfect example that one person can still make a difference. Thanks
for proving this to us and to everyone else in the world.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: lpletch on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 03:19 PM EST
Congratulations PJ and everyone else here.
Best News Site is only a small part of it.
This site has the best of many things.
Keep on Diggin'

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: D. on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 03:31 PM EST
Congratulations to PJ and all of the GrokLaw contributers.

"Many eyes make all lies shallow"

D.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: TerryL on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 03:36 PM EST
Congratulations, very well deserved, especially PJ but all the legal and Linux
gurus who also contribute so much...

I must admit that since I found this site (by accident) it has been the first
thing I check every morning, and the last thing I check at night (being as I'm
in the UK and the time difference). I must admit my only worry these days is if
the dozens of checks during my working day are going to be branded as
"inappropriate use of the internet" by my stuffy employers...

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Congrats
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 03:37 PM EST
You've done an incredible job over the past few months, PJ - Thanks!

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Gargoyle on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 03:40 PM EST
Very well deserved. Congratulations PJ and all contributors.

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OT - Can CA Save Linux ...
Authored by: agriffin on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 03:40 PM EST

This article just showed up.

Can CA Save Linux from the Great Satan SCO?
December 19, 2003

Summary
It's dawned on Computer Associates that IBM pays it royalties for the SMP technology in AIX, IBM's version of Unix, because of the work done long ago by Unix icon Locus Computing Corporation.

Time of some more research and analysis.

And like thousands of others, I add my thanks and congratulations.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 04:03 PM EST
Waiter! Bottle of your finest champagne please!

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: jbeadle on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 04:05 PM EST
...and thrilled you should be!! Congratulations, PJ!!

Take care,
John (Can't wait 'til Monday...)

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 04:07 PM EST
This is certainly the clearest, most informative and well
argued site I have seen. and this award comes as no
surprise.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: tyche on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 04:09 PM EST
The sound of thunder you hear is just the well deserved applause of those who
visit this site regularly.
Bravo PJ!

Encore!

Craig
(Tyche)

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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of
knowledge."
Stephen Hawking

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: John on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 04:10 PM EST
Congratulations PJ, and well deserved too. Without you, we would have nothing.

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JJJ

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Thomas Downing on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 04:16 PM EST
<p>That was very well said.</p>
<p>For those that may not be too familiar with netiquet, some posts are
better sent as private messages.</p>

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Thomas Downing
Principal Member Technical Staff
IPC Information Systems, Inc.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 04:33 PM EST
Congratulations PJ, Mathfox and the whole team. This is truly an excellent
site.

PS - I am running out of Cake and Streamers!

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In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like
a rock.
--Thomas Jefferson

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PJ has earned a permanent place in Linux lore.
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 04:46 PM EST
Our community owes you big, PJ. You're the hammer that's driving the nails in
SCO's coffin.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 04:49 PM EST
congrats, PJ and all contributors!!! One day, Darl will be asked to name one
thing that ultimately cost SCO in their downfall (besides frivilous and
obviously unrealistic lawsuits), and GROKLAW will be it.....

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: RSC on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 05:14 PM EST
Well deserved PJ

Congratulations.

Keep up the good work.

RSC

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Congratulations PJ!
Authored by: Stefan2100 on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 05:17 PM EST
And to all the others contributing to Groklaw!

It's a shame that companies like SCO can get away so easily with their FUDding.
Fortunately there are ways and means to counter it, with Groklaw being an
excellent example for others to follow.

Best regards,
Stefan2100

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Merry Christmas, PJ!
Authored by: Weeble on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 05:34 PM EST
Looks like Santa came early this year for you. Congratulations--very well
deserved.

Have a cyberhug:
___ .~~~~ . ___
____( \ /________\ / )____
(____ \_____ / |(@||@)| \ ______/ ____)
(____ A HUG FOR U`-----( > )-----'A HUG FOR U ____)
(____ _____________@@ .___. @@______________ ____)
(______/ JR/MW @@@.____.@@@ \______)
@@@@@@@@@@
@@@@@@@@

(View this in a monospaced font like Courier New or else
you'll think this is a Picasso instead of a hug!)

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"Every time I think I've heard it all from SCO, they come
up with a new howler." Steven Vaughan-Nichols, eWeek

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 05:34 PM EST
Congratulations, PJ! Well deserved!

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Alex on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 05:51 PM EST

PJ, you are the total bomb, the perfect wampeter of a truly magnificent karass.
The site is utterly brilliant, and so are you.

That being said, congratulations to everyone else too. This is one of the most
wonderful examples of self organizing that's ever taken place on the Internet,
and I'm thrilled to be a part of it.

Alex

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Hey Darl!! Did Ross Perot draw your chart?"

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Congratulations
Authored by: banjopaterson on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 06:01 PM EST
This is a great site and you have managed it well, PJ (if I may be so
informal).

But don't forget to maintain your focus. I have a feeling this whole SCO
debacle is going to be a marathon - not a sprint.

Run the good race,

Regards

The Banjo

"And he ran them single-handed till their sides were white with foam.
He followed like a bloodhound on their track,
Till they halted cowed and beaten, then he turned their heads for home,
And alone and unassisted brought them back."

[from "The Man from Snowy River" by the real Banjo Paterson
(1890)]

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: mac586 on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 06:16 PM EST
"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people."
- John Adams, 2nd US President

PJ & Groklaw: Thanks for shining the light.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: SteveS on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 06:30 PM EST
It shore is purdy - Congradulations, I am pleased to add one more "signiture" to this "card"

Steve S.

img src="http://www.osdir.com/images/2003osdirwinnerbadge.gif"
^ wish that tag worked for once....But I guess just over on the left will have to do...

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OT: Upcoming Dates
Authored by: snorpus on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 06:40 PM EST
With the holiday season upon us, it's easy to lose track of the calendar...
  • Today, December 19 is a Friday. Things with SCO seem to happen on Fridays, especially late on Fridays. With the time zone difference, maybe to be after the markets close.

  • IBM's Motion to Compel Discovery was entered on Friday, December 12, with a 30 day deadline. Thirty days from December 12 would be January 11th, a Sunday, so SCO is ordered to respond to the discovery request with specificity by Monday January 12th, I presume.

  • On Jan 23, the magistrate will hear more motions, but only (?) if SCO complies with the Jan 12 order.

If SCO responds to IBM's satisfaction by Jan 12th, then the hearing on Jan 23 will address SCO's requests for discovery from IBM. My interpretation of the Dec 12th Order is that the magistrate won't go on to discovery of IBM materials until SCO complies with the Jan 12th deadline.

An interesting thread for pure WAG speculation is: Assume SCO provides IBM with alleged chapter and verse, in SCO-code and Linux-code (or the IP behind those implementations), ... what happens next?

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73 & 88 de KQ3T

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Click to Give is Easy :-)
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 07:48 PM EST
No paypal account? Click to give is easy. Under 2 minutes. Lets show our
appreciation where it counts. Heartfelt congratulations PJ. Can Hardly wait for
the movie.....

Seasonal Greeting and once more around the Sun

Daniel Jircik

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sco got an award too hehehehe
Authored by: brenda banks on Friday, December 19 2003 @ 09:33 PM EST
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/19/50OPcringely_1.html
enjoy

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: grouch on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 01:36 AM EST
Congratulations, PJ, on creating Groklaw, then maintaining standards that
attracted so much high quality help. You have put enough of yourself into your
writing to make it personal, and enough cold facts to make it reliable to a
whole community. Your directed, unselfish efforts attracted the people necessary
for your creation to grow.

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Deceased site
Authored by: JMonroy on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 02:28 AM EST
OFF TOPIC:

I just noted a comment about a deceased site regarding a "lay"
analysis on Darl's mental condition.

That site would be mine... and it's out of reach for the next 2-10 days because
SBC managed to somehow bungle my new DSL line order.

I am just waiting for my static IP's (Monday 12/22), then I program DNS, then I
wait for DNS to update network-wide, THEN my site will be visible again.
(Phew!)

Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS PJ!!!! I'll throw down a cognac for you tonite...

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if (!sco_wincase) { die("SCO"); } else { eat_shat();
die("SCO"); }

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: skuggi on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 04:16 AM EST
Congratulation Pamela! :-)
And congratulation to all others who did help to make this
webside what it is today!

Fabulous!

-Skuggi.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: stomori on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 06:40 AM EST

PJ says "... and we've done something brand new."

Yes, and I am sure we are all witnessing one of epoch-making
events on Internet history, here.

Bravo! PJ from Japan.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 06:59 AM EST
Congratulation PJ. Keep up the good work!

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Let's keep our feet on the ground
Authored by: Captain on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 08:38 AM EST
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but this award was given from a Linux
sympatiser, to a Linux sympatiser. Sure it's nice, and I love this site, but it
just doesn't have a lot of weight.

Imagine how you would feel if Hollywood gives the RIAA an award for their
'battle' against online copyright theft. It would be pretty much a no-brainer
to brush it away on account of the incestuous relationship the two industries
have.

Now reverse this sentiment. Look at it from the other side. It's fun to read
things that support your view, but some skepticism is always in order. I read
the award website, and it seems to be just the editor handing out awards on
personal preference. If you count that as a win, you're going to be stuck in
the underground, being praised, and praising others for feats that don't really
matter in the real world.

Conclusion: If you want to convince the main stream that open source and the GPL
licence is ok, you'll have to appeal to them. Not to those that already
converted.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 10:59 AM EST
Three cheers for PJ and the Penguinistas(both those in the backroom and the
frontroom).
Since you added the handglass to the heading title I keep having flashbacks to
Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars. "The games afoot
Watson"
Can hardly wait for D-Day on Monday.

Morven24

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Go PJ!
Authored by: phrostie on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 12:51 PM EST
Go PJ,
Go PJ,
Go,
Go,
Go PJ!

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phrostie
Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of DOS
and danced the skies on Linux silvered wings.
http://www.freelists.org/webpage/cad-linux

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 01:32 PM EST
You're a class act, PJ. Thanks for staying on the high road.

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Groklaw Wins Award as Best News Site
Authored by: tanker on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 07:11 PM EST
Congratulations PJ, you deserve a great deal of credit for what you have started
here. And thank you to all of the people who have contributed their research and
knowledge to keep us informed and help us seperate facts from FUD.

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PJ rules O.K.
Authored by: Tim Ransom on Saturday, December 20 2003 @ 07:32 PM EST
Well deserved vindication for your herculean effort and peerless grace.

My congratulations and sincerest gratitude to all Grokkers.
Another shining example the open source process.
Watching you all outwit and outclass the 'proprietary' journalists in spite of
their lamest efforts has been a real honor. Thanks for your tolerating me here.


Happy holidays

Thanks again,

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