Groklaw Calling It Quits After a Job Well Done

Groklaw will stop publishing new articles May 16 — exactly eight years to the day after it was launched. This is because its reason for existence is gone, according to founder Pamela Jones. “In a simple sentence, the reason is this: The crisis SCO initiated over Linux is over, and Linux won,” Jones said in a blog post. Over the years, the Groklaw blog has helped pick apart SCO’s case as that company tried to take control of Linux, suing IBM and threatening Linux users in the process. It became a beacon for the free and open source software community.