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The end of Groklaw

...the entire online technology community, the High Excuser for copyright theft herself, Pamela Jones, is closing down Groklaw. No, I don't mean it. Pamela... Read more

11 April, 2011

Google: Oracle altered Java Android code evidence

...any infringements would have been too minor to matter — patent law expert Pamela Jones pointed out that "you can use contradictory alternative defenses, just in... Read more

15 November, 2010 by David Meyer

Google accuses Oracle of bad faith in Android Java suit

...is open source and its code is available for anyone to see. Pamela Jones, author of the Groklaw intellectual property blog, wrote in a blog... Read more

6 October, 2010 by David Meyer

Compliance scheme aims to dispel open-source concerns

...role, making risk avoidance both inexpensive and wholly effective." Open-source advocate Pamela Jones wrote on her Groklaw legal blog that the scheme seemed designed... Read more

12 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Linspire Linux deal 'worse than Novell'

...deal "worse" than that between Microsoft and Novell, according to legal expert Pamela Jones. Jones, author of the Groklaw blog, wrote on Sunday that the... Read more

23 July, 2007 by David Meyer

HP and MIT team up on open-source archiving

...Linspire sign NDAs [non-disclosure agreements] and then write translators for them," Pamela Jones, an open-source expert and editor of the Groklaw blog, wrote... Read more

18 July, 2007 by Andrew Donoghue

Kodak wins Java patent case

...of the basic tenets of modern computing: the interaction between different programs. Pamela Jones, who runs Groklaw -- a Web site devoted to legal issues in... Read more

4 October, 2004 by Graeme Wearden

Details emerge of 'shocking' OOXML meeting

At last month's OOXML ballot resolution meeting, 81 percent of the technical issues around the format were apparently resolved without being properly addressed Read more

28 March, 2008 by Peter Judge

Red Hat and Novell hit with Linux patent suit

...was delisted from the Nasdaq. "I think SCO II has arrived," wrote Pamela Jones on legal blog Groklaw, referring to SCO's bid to sue... Read more

12 October, 2007 by Peter Judge

TomTom joins Linux protection group

...GNU General Public Licence (GPL) that underpins the relevant patents. Groklaw editor Pamela Jones wrote on Monday that TomTom joining the OIN means "the Microsoft... Read more

23 March, 2009

US regulators question cloud-computing security

...the state, national and international level have had insufficient results; FTC commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour cited a 2008 PricewaterhouseCoopers information security survey in which 71... Read more

18 March, 2009 by Stephanie Condon

Oasis forms ODF committee

...be aligned between Oasis and ISO, in a move that Groklaw's Pamela Jones described as "a takeover attempt of ODF". Groklaw alleged that ISO... Read more

4 November, 2008 by Tom Espiner

ISO offers to take on ODF maintenance

...of a body dominated by OOXML supporters, by critics such as lawyer Pamela Jones, writing in the Groklaw blog. Delegates from 15 national standards bodies... Read more

7 October, 2008 by Peter Judge

ISO's OOXML committee in ODF takeover bid?

...2006) to maintain that standard too. Is that a good idea? Well, Pamela Jones at Groklaw doesn't think so. Eight of SC34's 19... Read more

5 October, 2008

SCO fined in Germany over Linux claims

...of Unix — unless it can prove it," said technology lawyer and commentator Pamela Jones on Groklaw. "Good luck with that. SCO hasn't been successful... Read more

21 August, 2008 by Peter Judge

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