Groklaw door step by journo stumbles

Groklaw's founder, who has worked under the title PJ, has been responsible for getting a lot of information to the Linux community about the activities of SCO in its attempts to sink the operating system in a patent dispute.

SCO has made no secret of the fact that it dislikes Groklaw and would like the site shut down, so that it can present its own version of the court cases to the media. Linux Business News hack Maureen O'Gara, released this yarn here in which she claims to have outed PJ.

The story is surreal. She doesn't actually find PJ at all. She visits a block of flats, and talks to people who know of a woman in the house called Pamela Jones. This Pamela Jones is apparently a 61 year-old Jehovah's Witness, who seems to have legged it recently.

The story is full of comments about this Pamela Jones and doesn't actually appear to out Groklaw's PJ at all.

In fact in the history of door stepping this one would not make it past any news editor in the country, as it failed to find PJ, or anyone who could link this partticular Pamela Jones with Groklaw.

Fortunately for O'Gara, once the story came out PJ seems to have outed herself, by screaming blue murder at Groklaw, linking O'Gara with SCO and threatening court action. She claimed that SCO is setting her up.

"So I feel I should say this, just for the record, just in case, worst-case scenario: I don't believe in suicide, and I certainly don't care what Maureen O'Gara thinks about me. So if you hear about my "suicide", it isn't one."

The "outing" by a non-SCO magazine is a trifle strange. Conspiracy theories on the Groklaw site abound.

Linux Business News claims it has had death threats since running the story, and PJ has been flooded with letters of support. µ