Pamela Jones

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Pamela Jones, commonly known as PJ, is the creator and was editor of

free and open-source software community. Jones is an open source advocate who previously trained and worked as a paralegal.[1][2]

Jones' articles have appeared in

UK print publication Linux User and Developer. She is one of the contributors to the book Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution.[3]

In 2010 the Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded the Pioneer award to "Pamela Jones and the Groklaw Website" for "Legal Blogging".[4]

Grok projects

Groklaw

Main article: Groklaw

Jones had a website,

open source legal issues, notably the SCO–Linux disputes
. The website started as a blog but grew from there.

Groklaw covered the various lawsuits involving the

Free Software and Open Source community. The site won numerous awards, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award in 2010[5] and the American Bar Association Journal Blawg 100 in 2012.[6]

Groklaw shut down on August 20, 2013, following the Lavabit email shutdown, because there was "no way to do Groklaw without email", and the inability to privately collaborate without it: "I can't do Groklaw without your input."[7]

Grokline

Jones also launched

Grokline
, a Unix ownership timeline project, in February 2004.

Grokdoc

Grokdoc was a Groklaw spinoff whose original goal was 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. The site now also supports many other collaborative projects which benefit from its wiki-like structure.[8]

Use of initials

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:[9]

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.

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.[3]
  • Jones, Pamela (3 December 2003). "The GPL Is a License, not a Contract". lwn.net. Retrieved 5 November 2015. This article has been highly influential in articulating thought on free licenses.

See also

  • SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit
  • SCO-Linux controversies

Notes and references

  1. ^ "Interview with Pamela Jones, editor of Groklaw". Linux Online. 2003-07-31. Archived from the original on 2007-02-16. Retrieved 2007-02-18.
  2. ^ Arthur, Charles (20 August 2013). "Groklaw legal site shuts over fears of NSA email snooping". The Guardian.
  3. ^
    ISBN 0-596-00802-3
    .
  4. ^ 2010 Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine on eff.org
  5. ^ "Transparency Activist, Public Domain Scholar, Legal Blogger, and Imprisoned E-Voting Researcher Win Pioneer Awards". 19 October 2010. Archived from the original on 2020-08-01. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  6. ^ "6th Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100". Archived from the original on 2018-12-21. Retrieved 2018-12-21.
  7. ^ "Forced Exposure". 2013-08-21.
  8. ^ "Main Page". Grokdoc. Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
  9. ^ "SCO's 1Q 2005 Earnings Conference Call — transcript". Groklaw. 2005-04-18. Archived from the original on 2007-06-06. Retrieved 2007-02-18. PJ quotes this passage herself, and explains that she provided it to a Wikipedia editor in 2003.

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