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 Screenshot of Groklaw on June 18, 2008 | |
Type of site | Law |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Pamela Jones |
| Created by | Pamela Jones |
| URL | groklaw |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | May 16, 2003 |
| Current status | Offline; domain registration on hold |
Groklaw was a website that covered legal news of interest to the free and open source software community. Started as a law blog on May 16, 2003, by paralegal Pamela Jones ("PJ"), it covered issues such as the SCO-Linux lawsuits, the EU antitrust case against Microsoft, and the standardization of Office Open XML.
Jones described Groklaw as "a place where lawyers and geeks could explain things to each other and work together, so they'd understand each other's work better".[1]
Its name derives from "grok", roughly meaning "to understand completely", which had previously entered geek slang.
Other topics covered included software patents, DMCA, the actions of the RIAA against alleged illegal file sharers, and actions against free and open software such as Android and Linux.
- ^ "Harald Welte and Groklaw announced as winners of the FSF's 2007 annual free software awards — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software". Archived from the original on 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2015-07-26. Harald Welte and Groklaw announced as winners of the FSF's annual free software awards