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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:19 AM EDT

Happy anniversary to us, happy anniversary to us. Today we are 4.
Are we having fun, or what?

The best part is, we know exactly what we'll be doing for the next year, thanks to Microsoft.


.....Having tons *more* fun.



As always, I want to say thank you to Tiki, for letting me use his adorable Laughing Penguin.


  


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Corrections Here
Authored by: feldegast on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:33 AM EDT
Not that i see any....

Happy anniversary Groklaw

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IANAL
My posts are ©2004-2007 and released under the Creative Commons License
Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0
P.J. has permission for commercial use.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: chaz_paw on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:34 AM EDT
Happy Anniversary, PJ and Groklaw!

---
Proud Linux user since 07/26/04
Registered Linux user #422376

Charles

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: fjaffe on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:38 AM EDT
Congrats.

Let's see, 4 years, 3 zillion articles and comments, thousands of hours of
"lost" productivity.....

priceless

Thanks for a great site and wonderful insights and education into the inner
workings of our legal system.

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I was thinking this last night...
Authored by: chaz_paw on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:40 AM EDT
I am Microsoft free!

All the news on Groklaw for the last few days have been about Microsoft and its
patent stance towards Linux.

Hallelujah, I'm Microsoft free.


---
Proud Linux user since 07/26/04
Registered Linux user #422376

Charles

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: skuggi on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:43 AM EDT
Happy anniversary Groklaw! 4 years, wow!

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-Skuggi.

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Happy 4th Anniversary Groklaw!!!
Authored by: rsi on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:47 AM EDT
PJ, you deserve Congratulations on a job well done!

The entire Computing Industry is in your debt forever!

I will host a pint to you tonight!

Rick

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No Longer in the Terrible Twos and Threes! N/T
Authored by: joef on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:50 AM EDT
.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:51 AM EDT
Congratulations PJ, and to all of the folks contributing to Groklaw.

(lamcrae - not logged in)

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: maroberts on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:54 AM EDT
Should I congratulate Groklaw for lasting 4 years, or PJ for surviving 4 years
of Groklaw? :-)

Happy anniversary to both of you.

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HELP! I'm a Groklaw Adict
Authored by: eamacnaghten on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:57 AM EDT
OK - I'll come out into the open - I admit it - I am adicted to Groklaw

It started off as an innocent enough vocation, every other day or so wondering off to the site, looking at it in small doses, I never thought anything ot if rally. I did not see how it could be harmful.

Before I knew it I was spending hours in front of my browser minutely eamining every inuendo of arguments and points of view. I found I wanted more. It was taking over my life.

I suppose a turing point was when I contributed!

When PJ had her well deserved vacation the other month, I mean, Mathfox was a good substitute for her, but non the less I had tremors! I was even having difficulty holding the mouse still to click the appropriate bit! I was desparate!

I thought I may be able to dry out when the SCO thingy was sorted, but now we have the Microsoft injection.

I need help! Tell me, is that what Groklaw Anonymous is about?

Web Sig: Eddy Currents.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Peter Reid on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:59 AM EDT
Hi --

Three years ago, while doing some graphic design, I happened to be searching for
web graphics which looked like those produced by artists such as Mackintosh,
Moser and others in the Viennese Secession. One of the pictures cast up by
Google Images was the little graphic which appeared at top-right on the home
page of something called Groklaw.

I spent a few minutes, checking out the page, bookmarked it, then left. A month
or so later, I happened to click back, and this time read the first couple of
stories. A few days later, I came back for another look. (My original degree is
in computing, and I'm a long-time Unix user.)

Spin forward to today, and rarely a day goes by without my checking the site for
new information. It's been an amazing few years, and the sheer depth of
discussion has been wonderful to behold.

[Part of it, I have to admit, is that -- just like in a film -- we're getting
near to the final reel (at least in _this_ particular film...), and there's a
palpable feeling of expectation in the air. After all, baddies always get their
comeuppance in the movies...]

This is an extraordinary site: all the more so, having been run by one person
(tales of IBM lawyer gestalt organisms notwithstanding). It's rare to come
across something which is likely to have altered events and perceptions (or at
least one which isn't driven by the interests of faceless corporate
juggernauts), and may play a part in shaping (or commenting on) the future of
software design and delivery.

And of course we now know what the sequel's going to be.

Here's looking forward to another four years..... it's going to be fun.

Cheers (and congratulations), from a dedicated lurker,
Peter

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Congratulations, Thanks, and a thought for the future
Authored by: Jude on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 11:59 AM EDT
Congratulations on Groklaw's 4th birthday, and thank you PJ for all your hard
work.

Since you mentioned that Microsoft has given us something new to do, perhaps we
should try to review as many of Microsoft's patents as possible. I suspect that
Groklaw has enough readers to give all of them at least a quick look in a few
weeks. Is there some way that Groklaw could help coordinate such an effort?

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Congratulations
Authored by: tiger99 on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:11 PM EDT
May there be many more years of PJ and Groklaw, and few of SCO and M$.

Hopefully Red Dress Day will be very soon now!

:-)

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: hamstring on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:16 PM EDT
Happy Anniversary and more importantly, thanks very much to PJ and the regular
Groklaw contributers!

I am not a lawyer, but a tech head. I found your site back when the SCO/IBM
case came out and have been following ever since.

Thanks very much for providing insight on the legal workings and angles I just
never seem to grasp! Groklaw is not about anti-this, or pro-that which I
greatly appreciate it. (Even though it's there sometimes and I enjoy that too.)
Without this site, I'd still know a brief as something purchased in a clothing
store, and think that pro bono had something to do with an early 70s musical
act.

Thanks for opening my eyes to so many things! I wish you many more years of
success, and hope that I can continue learn from PJ and other kind
contributors.



---
# echo "Mjdsptpgu Svdlt" | tr [b-z] [a-y]
# IANAL and do not like Monopoly

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: webster on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:17 PM EDT
..
Which fortunately happens to remind me that I have an Anniversary this day also
that must never be forgotten or underappreciated.

Congrats, PJ. Your greatest achievements are yet to come.

---
webster

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:19 PM EDT
Congratulations on a job well done. You have accumulated riches and good will
which Gates and friends can only dream of.

Not logged in. JAM

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Groklaw is going to have many more anniversaries
Authored by: vb on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:23 PM EDT

This site will be used by law schools for years to come.

In the matter of the SCO litigation, how many other law cases, with a similar
amount of complexity, have such a large number of court documents converted into
digital form? Not to mention all of the hyperlinks for navigating from one
document to another.

I think the answer is few, if any.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: phubert on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:23 PM EDT
What would we have done without you!!

Congratulations and best wishes for MANY MORE!

:-D

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: kozmcrae on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:26 PM EDT
I always wanted to be four again. Things are going to be different this time.

Richie

---
Darl, have you been lying to us? Yup.

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Thanks for all the hard work PJ
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:31 PM EDT
We'd all be a whole lot more ignorant without you.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:32 PM EDT
And what an anniversary it is! I've been coming to this site since mid June
2003, and it has become my daily cup of coffee. I can't think of a day without
Groklaw as being normal. Because of this site, I have delved deeper into FOSS,
much to my benefit, and Linux.

Keep up the good work, PJ. The donation to the cause I made long ago was some
of the best money I ever spent.

RDH

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Congrats to PJ and us all, and thanks for educating ...
Authored by: eisi on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:33 PM EDT
... i was on a trial today (totaly unrelated, rental stuff, /me as the
plaintiff) and i think i could apply a bit the way of legal thinking i grokked
here.

Wasn't really unsuccesful :-)

warm regards across the pond,
Eisi

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Bearer of bad news. (Can I *be* any more glum?)
Authored by: Aladdin Sane on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:40 PM EDT
Happy Anniversary (and Happy Birthday) is copyrighted about 2,220,000 times...

Further, jail time is coming.

"Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name"

---
"Fat operating systems spend most of their energy supporting their own fat."
--Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, rediff.com, Apr 2006

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Happy Birthday Groklaw
Authored by: cricketjeff on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:43 PM EDT
Happy Birthday Groklaw
You're four years old today
All thanks to a firm called TSG
And a lady called PJ

TSG thought that they'd get rich
Claiming someone else's money
PJ thought she'd take a look
In case they did something funny

And as the case has dawdled on
PJ's site has bloomed
TSG's business has nearly gone
Now surely they are doomed

Groklawyers will be pleased to know
That PJ says she'll stay
To report on other naughty chaps
Who think they'll win the day

So Microsoft and patent schills
Better plan ahead with care
A lady on a mission
May just get in their hair!

Thanks for all your hard work PJ not much of a poem but it's all yours! Jeff

---
There is nothing in life that doesn't look better after a good cup of tea.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: GATECH96 on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:44 PM EDT
Happy Anniversary!

Congratulations to PJ and all the men and women who made this site a pleasure to
visit.

I am so looking forward to seeing Groklaw shredding Microsoft's FUD to pieces.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: CraigV on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:46 PM EDT
Thanks PJ for sharing your wit and intellect with us.
Groklaw is a marvelous example of the power of the
Internet to counter corporate attempts to restrict
individual freedom.

We're all looking forward to the book(s) we hope you will
write about all this.

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Off Topic here
Authored by: Alan(UK) on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:47 PM EDT
Is everyone asleep today or just carried away with the celebration?

---
Microsoft is nailing up its own coffin from the inside.

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Happy Anniversary! Happy In Adversity!
Authored by: Simon G Best on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 12:51 PM EDT

Happy Anniversary indeed!

Has anyone else noticed how similar "happy anniversary" and "happy in adversity" sound?

Anyway, it now feels like the much anticipated patent wars are looming close. Very close. But, at the same time, I suspect Microsoft won't actually launch any actual lawsuits. It's more like a cold war, with posturing, propaganda, proxy wars, and the like.

Groovy!

---
"Public relations" is a public relations term for propaganda.

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:07 PM EDT
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: GriffMG on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:11 PM EDT
Happy Anniversary!

Well done and keep up the good work PJ

Many thanks!

---
Keep B-) ing

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Is that a *gray* penguin?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:18 PM EDT
So me googles penguin pictures, and whaddya know? Especially the yellow-eyed and
the galapagos penguins seem pretty gray to me. And half-grown emperors are gray,
but no white belly.

Learn something knew every day.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Carla Schroder on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:20 PM EDT
Well done, PJ! One thing's for certain- you'll never run
out of topics!

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Congratulations...
Authored by: ggiedke on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:21 PM EDT
... and many happy returns.

Groklaw is one of the most enjoyable and instructive websites I am aware of.
Achieving and maintaining this high quality for such a long time is an
impressive accomplishment. Many thanks.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: BobinAlaska on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:26 PM EDT
Happy Anniversary. Sit back, relax and maybe have a bit of wine with dinner.

A question. Is it not about time for another quarterly report from our good
friends at TSCOG? I can't wait to hear how well their case is coming and how
they look forward to having their day in court.

---
Bob Helm, Juneau, Alaska

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Microsoft will keep groklaw busy for 10 years at least
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:26 PM EDT
SCO will probably take 5. Microsoft can easily double that time. I am also
looking forward to the google litigation. What I have decided the difference
between open source and MS is that open source is in it for primarily the love
of the code. MS is just wanting to make money. Its too bad regular consumers
can't see that as clear.

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Party Time!!!
Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:26 PM EDT
We'll have to have an anniversary party some place. Lindon, Utah perhaps? ;-)


---
Be sincere, even if you have to fake it.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:36 PM EDT
On behalf of the Warner Chappell Corporation, copyright owners of a well-known
song, you are hereby warned that one or more of the thousands of articles on
this website contains an obfuscated copy of one or more lines of our well-known
song.

You (and of course any or all of your readers) therefore owe us umpteen
gazillion dollars. Alternatively, your readers can admit guilt and pay us a
$1199.00 fee for permission to read Groklaw (only $699.00 if you ACT NOW!).

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: DL on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:39 PM EDT
Happy anniversary!

4 years! Seems longer somehow.

A lot can happen in 4 years. For one, GL is older than 50% of my children. And
the dog.

---
DL

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Thank you, PJ!!
Authored by: lordshipmayhem on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:43 PM EDT
I stumbled across Groklaw as I was trying to resolve various difficulties
arising from an "upgrade" (PHAH!) to XP on my PIII. I was
contemplating my alternatives and reading up on Linux.

As a result of this blog, as well as many others out there, I decided to give
Linux a try.

I now only use Windows when I do my tax return. I don't like putting personal
information of THAT nature with an on-line tax preparation program, and nobody
makes tax prep software for Linux.

I don't even go online in Windows.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: waltish on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:47 PM EDT
Wow 4 years and just getting stonger all the time.

Happy Aniversary PJ.

Am looking foward to next years Aniversary, SCO will be a distant memory by
then.
{:))

---
" You can fool some of the people all of the Time
And all of the people some of the time
But you cant fool All of the people All of the Time."

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: ilde on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:54 PM EDT
Congratulations and many thanks to PJ for all the effort involved in maintaining
such a good site.

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Microsoft?
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 01:57 PM EDT
Who? The name sounds familiar... Don't tell me... Some biological/chemical
supply business?

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Presents ...
Authored by: Toon Moene on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:00 PM EDT
And today (at least if you live by UTC), as a special gift, GCC 4.2.0 was released.

Hurray !

Four more years, four more years, ...

[ Oops, wrong list ]

---
Toon Moene (A GNU Fortran maintainer and physicist at large)

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This may be of use...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:04 PM EDT
...during the next four. Be good peeps. Link

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Are we having fun, or what?
Authored by: Nice Kitty on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:08 PM EDT
"May you live in interesting times" <big, if slightly-nervous
grin). The late Jerry Garcia ("What a long strange trip it's been")
would have approved :o)

Mazel tov, PJ, for having survived the past 4 years and not "losing"
'it'. :-)

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Bet you never thought the SCO case would take this long
Authored by: billyskank on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:10 PM EDT
;)

Happy birthday Groklaw!

---
It's not the software that's free; it's you.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Sean DALY on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:18 PM EDT
Well, it took me long enough to get interested, since I'm not much of a joiner.
So a year spent lurking, then commenting anonymously, then creating an account,
commenting, another year, sending along suggestions for News Picks, another
year, then finally contributing an interview!

I am counting on that book of yours but most of all I am wishing health and
peace for you and your family.

Thanks for what you do.

Sean.

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Congrats, and a gift
Authored by: ssavitzky on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:19 PM EDT

Congratulations!!

By way of an anniversary present, here's a link to my song about SCO, High Barratry [ogg] off my soon-to-be-released CD, Coffee, Computers, and Song!

(Yes, it mentions Groklaw. I've posted the song before, but this is a much better performance.

---
Never anger a bard, for they are not subtle and people remember funny songs.

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o/t Jonathan Schwarz's blog
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:33 PM EDT
In response to MS patent litigation strategy Jonathan Schwartz,CEO of Sun,
writes in his blog:
"We were invited by one company to sue the beneficiaries of open source. We
declined. We could join another and sue our customers. That seemed suicidal. We
were offered the choice to scuttle Solaris, and resell someone else's operating
system. We declined.

Wow, does this mean what I think it does!
It seems Microsoft has really tried every angle.
They are getting desperate.

Peter Smith

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: ox on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:35 PM EDT
Two initial clicks per day minimum. Keep up the good fight.

---
ox
Linux Reg.#199890

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:42 PM EDT
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y !!!!

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Happy Anniversary To Us :)
Authored by: SilverWave on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:42 PM EDT
Well done everyone!

Thanks for the insightful coverage PJ.

---
Linus: "The bulk of all patents are crap...
Spending time reading them is stupid...
It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them."
:p

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:45 PM EDT
HAPPY HAPPY JOY JOY!!!!!!


HAPPY HAPPY ANNIVERASRY PJ AND GROKLAW!!!!!!!

WE are this many now (HOLDS UP 4 FINGERS)!!!!!!!!!!

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: sonicfrog on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 02:58 PM EDT
Is an anniversary for a blog the same as a blog birthday? If so, then HAPPY B-DAY!!!

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 03:00 PM EDT
In December of 2002, my wife gave birth to twins. I was working for a
now-defunct startup, whose product was based entirely on FOSS code.

Later, in 2003, I first read an article on slashdot about SCO's assertion of its
IP "rights." I took SCO's challenge personally. Here was a direct
threat to my new family's bread and butter.

Naturally, when slashdot linked to groklaw, I had to go read it so that I could
understand what, if anything, was going to happen to my career. I was instantly
addicted :-). I think I've posted to groklaw maybe twice in all that time, but I
read it many times a day.

Today, my kids are four and a half, and I'm still working with linux and FOSS
(although at a different company). Sadly, the SCO case is still grinding on,
but, luckily, groklaw is still here too, to keep us informed.

Congratulations, PJ!

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today, and many deserved thanks
Authored by: Briareus on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 03:22 PM EDT
For enriching and invigorating my understanding and appreciation of legal issues
in technology, I sincerely thank you.

Congratulations on the first four years!

---
scary times are never dull

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: ntwkgestapo on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 03:33 PM EDT
Happy Anniversary PJ. Keep up the GREAT work!

---
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus!
I'm PAID to be Paranoid! ;->

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Uptown Girl
Authored by: Aladdin Sane on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 03:43 PM EDT
OK, recently I purchased "Piano Man: The Very best of" Billy Joel from allofmp3.com (aka mp3sparks.com).

Now, can anybody here or at RIAA tell me where I can pay the album author?

I here that author's take per album is about 1% to 2%, $00.38 to $00.76.

I'm ready to pay my 7 Pieces of 8.

Please tell me where, or sue me for $00.75. Billy Joel deserves it. Please sue me now for $00.75. Please, RIAA.

Here I stand, admitted for you.

---
"Fat operating systems spend most of their energy supporting their own fat."
--Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, rediff.com, Apr 2006

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Many Happy Returns Groklaw!
Authored by: 1N8 M4L1C3 on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 03:45 PM EDT
Give a man a fish, he eats for a day...
...Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.

Thank you PJ...
...from a very grateful F/OSS community.


---
On the 7th day, Linus saw that which he created and it was good... ...on the
8th day SCO litigated.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 03:57 PM EDT
COOL, It's my birthday too. I'm only 58 years older than you. You'd think
with that age difference SCO would have had time to come after me too.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: doughnuts_lover on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 04:21 PM EDT
Best wishes for the girl in the red dress, for Groklaw and its contributors from Old Europe.

--doughnuts_lover

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: entre on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 04:25 PM EDT
Happy Birthday, looking forward to the new year and the IP storm ahead. Thanks
PJ.

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And it's been a fun four years
Authored by: The Mad Hatter r on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 04:27 PM EDT


Thanks PJ.



---
Wayne

http://urbanterrorist.blogspot.com/

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: akoma on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 04:34 PM EDT
Happy birthday to Groklaw.

And thanks PJ for the hard work.

Peace.

Pascal

---
I have no insightfull things to say in my sign..

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 04:51 PM EDT
Happy birthday to Groklaw
and let celebrate your birthday as well PJ
until we know better.

It's a easy thread today, so every early home,
and tomorrow a day off.

/Arthur

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: GafLinux on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 05:07 PM EDT
Happy anniversary. Pamela has been doing fantastic job.

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Jerry Feldman
Treasurer, Boston Linux and Unix
http://www.blu.org

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Ironically SCO/Groklaw made me go OSS
Authored by: TAZ6416 on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 05:09 PM EDT
First of all Happy Birthday Groklaw :)

Secondly if it wasn't for SCO/Groklaw I probably wouldn't have switched to OSS. I had Windows at home, Windows at work (still do, but hey if Windows wasn't so bad I would be out of a job supporting it ;) ) and I remember the first SCO lawsuits. I didn't know much about the history of UNIX back then or indeed Linux but I do remember thinking at the time "$5 Billion dollars... are they mad?" and as I spent more time on Groklaw I learnt a lot about the US Justice system and how much full of crack SCO are.

And as things progressed and I saw so many people happily running Linux here I thought I'd try it (think this was back in 2004), using Debian and it went a bit wrong. Installation was a pig, got it working but couldn't get on the net, gave up. Then after a while tried again and gave Linspire a go, I know PJ isn't a fan of them but it was just what I needed to get me on the "Linux Ladder" as it was so easy to set up and use. And now I change Distro's about once a month to see what's out there and have a little play :)

So thanks to SCO and Groklaw Microsoft are £300 poorer as I havn't bought Microsoft Vista for my home PC and I am happily running Linux (rPath this week) instead. Well apart from the fact I owe SCO $699 ;)

Jonathan

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: MDT on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 05:21 PM EDT
Happy Anniversary PJ...

Please don't expect any anniversary gifts...

Although if Judge Kimbell reads this, a small PSJ or SJ judgement or three
against SCO(et al) would be appreciated.

<evil grin>


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MDT

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Open Source Anniversary Cake
Authored by: RichardR on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 06:17 PM EDT
No anniversary without a cake - and I think the best one for this occasion (or
any other occasion I can think of) is the Open Source cake, which has almost
biblical properties: the more it's shared, the bigger and better it gets, and
the more everyone can have :-)

Happy anniversary!

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: glitch on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 06:24 PM EDT
Any body wanna ask BSF if there's enough hot air in those lungs to blow out 4
candles ?

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  • Heavens no... - Authored by: Jude on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 08:51 PM EDT
    • Heavens no... - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 19 2007 @ 02:25 PM EDT
It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 06:35 PM EDT
PJ,
One of the other posters said they're not much of a joiner - I'd agree with
him except that it means we're part of the same group...

Anyhoo, congrats on your dissection of the FUD around SCO. I really really hate
bullies and SCOcrosoft's behaviour has been bullying of the highest order.

More importantly though...

PJ - I really liked your site when it stuck to legal matters, so I'm quite
disappointed that you've started commentary on birthdays. No wonder people are
leaving shorter messages. (tra la tra la... I don't get to troll very often, so
apologies for the lack of expertise!

Calxoddity
Non-joiner long-time reader and occasional anon

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Any presents?
Authored by: devil's advocate on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 07:42 PM EDT
A nice present would be a few summary judgement motions being decided.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 08:28 PM EDT
Happy anniversary!

krp

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No off -topic thread - NM - Buon Compleano
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 08:44 PM EDT
I don't need to re-iterate the sentiments of others. Great stuff, yup! Off Topic.... VIACOM vs YT

Call me slow or whatever but I think I just realized why Viacom is so afraid of YouTube.

I get far more "entertainment" or "edutainment" value from the few YT snips I have seen than 45 minutes of some Viacom episode or 120 minute flick.

Once people start realizing that, GAME-OVER viacom.

I would have never dreamed of this 3 years ago when I first heard of YT. I'm about as slow as molasses.

Here we have in one corner, bloatware HD-DVD - high quality pictures, sanitized content, while in the other corner we have pure fun - in 2 minutes you have made your point. Which one do you think will win. DUH!

Viacom is not trying to assert their copyright, they're trying to kill a format they can never compete with. They're know they're dead already ! Fascinating.

There is nothing that Viacom can compete with here. They can't support their current business model. The only thing they can do is legislate YT out of existence.

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a happy birthday to groklaw...
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 08:56 PM EDT
and a happy anniversary to pj and everyone else that help make groklaw one of my
favourite little internet addictions.

sum.zero

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Woot, Woot....!
Authored by: Latesigner on Wednesday, May 16 2007 @ 10:31 PM EDT
Does happy dance and reaches for credit card...
I love this place.

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The only way to have an "ownership" society is to make slaves of the rest of us.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: tce on Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 12:12 AM EDT
Happy Anniversary!
..20 minutes of the best fireworks you have ever seen...

Thank you PJ, and fellow Grokkers!

This too is my most visited website and reading/learning experience outside of
work'en!

PJ and Groklaw continue to drive me to the idea that after enough of
architecting business & systems, I'll head towards helping to
"architect" the civil space we live in. Maybe that a law degree is
next.

Thank you all!
--Tom

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Law: Societies Source Code.
Let's make it Open Source Code. Ask your city, county, state, federal government
to put all changes to all Bills/Laws in an open version control system. Ask
again. Offer to help.

--- Tom's dream: ---
Senator's Mom on the phone at 2am: "Jimmy, why did you just stick $3M in
pork on pg 789, ln 85 of the funding bill?"

Senator Jimmy: "What?"

Mom: "I like Subversion's rss feeds & seach criteria. Everything you
do goes right to my phone! When you roll back that change I'll get that message
too. Nighty-night!"

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That's "Fully Sick" (as Thorpie would say)
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 01:21 AM EDT
Regarding the bit about Microsoft,
as an old Apple Mac user (and cognoscenti of
the world's most popular Unix distribution),
"Welcome, Linux, seriously."

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This is sur-sur-surreal!
Authored by: elderlycynic on Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 04:45 AM EDT
Congratulations, and do you think that the first preliminary
final ruling will appear by the time Groklaw is five?

I have been at a loss for some time understanding how SCO
manages to get the judges to accept yet more delays. I can
see why it is critical for SCO to do so, as a ruling against
it on the current motions would send its share price negative,
but how on earth does it manage it?

Yours,
Baffled.

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: schestowitz on Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 04:57 AM EDT
*raises glass*

To litigation. Let's blow some SCOX off. :-)

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Roy S. Schestowitz, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Biophysics
http://Schestowitz.com | GNU/Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
http://othellomaster.com - GPL'd 3-D

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 07:16 AM EDT
Congratulations PJ! You have performed a most difficult
task. You are to be commended. May the Groklaw continue
on to provide a place where truth and real facts, as well
as a wide variety of unoffensive opinions, can be openly
found.

Keep up the good work!

Rick

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Thank you PJ
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 08:22 AM EDT
I'm sure at times it feels like a relentless grind, and at times I'm sure it
feels quite thankless, and I'm sure it's making you poor in money but rich in
friends. Thank you.

Jeff

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It's Groklaw's Anniversary Today
Authored by: sciamiko on Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 11:32 AM EDT
Congratulations, PJ.

Groklaw goes from strength to strength. In these litigious days, we need your
measured, unpanicked analyses.

s.

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happy fourth birthday ..
Authored by: emacsuser on Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 12:46 PM EDT
Happy 4th Bithday (animated)

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Happy Anniversary - and here's a present!
Authored by: bigbert on Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 11:27 PM EDT
:-) Clicky

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Surfus, ergo sum.

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Groklaw needs a song
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2007 @ 06:46 PM EDT
While I was nearly asleep last night, the thought came wandering by: Groklaw needs a song. Ok, self, what would it be, I asked myself. The answer was immediate. I'm having serious difficulty envisioning PJ as Gary Cooper in a red dress, but it was otherwise obvious.
Salty Darl was tryin' to stuff Sweet Linux in a burlap sack
He said, "If you don't give me the deed to your code
I'm gonna throw you on the railroad track... and then...
and then...
And then along came Jones doop doop doodlydoo dooby doop
Pam'la Jones ...
Hey, I didn't say I was conscious, coherent, or anything like that.

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--Bill P, not a lawyer. Question the answers, especially if I give some.

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