    pamela jones, commonly known as pj, is the creator and was editor of groklaw, a website that covered legal news of interest to the free and open-source software community. jones is an open source advocate who previously trained and worked as a paralegal. jones' articles have appeared in linux journal, lwn, linuxworld magazine, linux today, and linuxworld.com. she also wrote a monthly opinion column for the uk print publication linux user and developer. she is one of the contributors to the book open sources 2.0: the continuing evolution. == grok projects == === groklaw ===  pamela jones (pj) had a web site, groklaw, which covered open source legal issues, notably the sco-linux controversies. the web site started as a blog but grew from there. her stated purpose for starting the blog can be found in the first interview she ever granted, for linux online, where she said: i started my blog just before the sco case was filed. originally, my purpose was just trying to learn how to blog, because an attorney and i were discussing the possibility of me doing some telecommuting work for him, including work on his blog. i had no knowledge of blogging, so i quickly got radio, because he used it, and i put up one article to practice, which i never thought anyone in the world would ever see (ironically, about the grokster decision and how i admired david boies' napster legal documents). i was just writing to the air. my thought then was to try to explain legal news stories as they came along. i was forever reading slashdot comments about legal news and most of the comments would be way off, and i realized that there is a hunger for someone to explain what it all means, what the process is, how things play out, to people who aren't in the legal field. groklaw's mission statement says it is meant to be several things: it's an experiment, something not quite like anything that has been done before. it's primarily a working site, not a discussion forum. first, it's a journalistic enterprise, with interviews, research, and reporting of legal events important to the foss community.... second, we are applying open-source principles to research to the extent that they apply.... third, it's an antifud site. groklaw cove
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