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- Philluminati, on 10/11/2007, -3/+31100% definite digg. A fanstastic read. Keep up the fantastic work Groklaw
- tiger99999, on 10/11/2007, -2/+27I take it that you have never actually read Groklaw, and are paraphrasing the rantings of Darl McBride or one of his cronies. Take a close look, and you will not see any parroted propaganda, but genuine and accurate information, except when a few trolls post some of their garbage.
- generalloy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20BIFF (shortform for 'backinfullforce') is a disgusting poster on the Yahoo! Finance "SCOX" board. He has made some very morbid postings recently about PJ and it's digusting to read really.
The timing of BIFF's attacks on PJ and the OSDL and then Laura Didio's remarks are VERY interesting.
The title is referring to Laura DiDio and "BIFF"/backinfullfoce as the subject of the verb "smear". - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+207 are you trolling again? Tell Bill and Darl hi for me.
- TheFBI, on 10/11/2007, -2/+20Anybody else read it as "Laura Dildo"?
- Dankoozy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17I just checked TFA and it is DiDio, yes that woman behind all the false TCO "studies"
She even has her own Wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_DiDio
but it fails to explain how she got a capital D in the middle of her name - schestowitz, on 10/11/2007, -5/+19Quite commonly spelled "DiDiot" as well. See:
Laura Didio
,----[ Quote ]
| An example of her opinion on how Open Source Software is handled shows
| in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in
| Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free,
| open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free
| and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though
| it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it
| like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'" [1]
|
| Even recently, after admitting that a SCO victory in their case against
| IBM seemed like an extreme longshot, Didio said, "There is a larger
| issue, though: Even if the SCO case gets dismissed entirely, it does
| not remove the copyright cloud hanging over Linux and open source." [2]
|
| [...]
|
| Unsurprisingly, Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised
| DiDio. Typical criticisms are a lack of formal Computer Science
| qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft; frequently
| this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being
| characterised as "a Microsoft shill".
`----
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio
Her boss, the founder of the Yankee Group (Microsoft sockpuppet behind some misleading 'studies' that appear as "The Facts") called open source a "religion" last month. The whole anti-Groklaw brigade (Lyons, O'Ghara, Enderle, et al) should be altogether ignored by journalism, but sadly they are not. It's still just a medium that serves corporate agenda. Groklaw is the very opposite of this. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+15It's NOT a GB....it's called Cross Linking. If you're above the age of an amoeba and KNOW what CL is, then you would *never* accuse this movement of "GBing".
Can I get you a diaper? - archimerged, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Oops... If I could correct it I would. Can I? Should be Laura DiDio.
- prisoner24601, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Pamela Jones is my hero.
- mok000, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Laura DiDio is a complete crackpot. Move on, nothing to see here...
- krc1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9BIFF IS NOT A "...STUPID ACRONYM...".
Biff is short for: backinfullforce on the Yahoo! SCO Finance board.
He has advocated sexual assault and the death of PJ. He also gloated/applauded the suicide of a couple of people involved in case.
He posts all day long on the Yahoo message board and is basically a major league jerk.
He posts from Belgium. Nobody knows what his motivation is.
THIS JERKOFF NEEDS TO BE OUTED! FIND OUT WHO "BIFF" IS, YOU'LL BE A HERO! - Drahkar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8I hate when people talk before thinking.
This is not a Google Bomb. This is someone saying that if you see someone spreading libel against them that you please link said readers if you are able back to her post as a means of countering said libel. Its normal and perfectly reasonable. - wyrdness, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7BIFF is the internet's fattest troll, on account of how much he's fed. If people just ignored him, he might get the idea and go away. Instead, people devote huge amounts of time to arguing with him.
- quanta88, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I had the pleasure of meeting Laura Didio at an open source summit in Toronto in November 2004. And yes, even back then she claimed Linux violated Microsoft patents by referencing the OSRM study (while ignoring the study author's conclusions where he stated the complete opposite), all the while cracking petty jokes about Linux, the FSF and Linux users.
I actually blogged the experience here, where I confronted her and she sneaked out of the conference as the audience laughed: http://www.silentblue.net/mtarchives/2004/1123-open-source-stu.php
I wouldn't really call her a "shill"...maybe self-absorbed, perhaps. - Philluminati, on 10/11/2007, -6/+12laura didIo
- Phssthpok, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7@acceptab1euname (#7298039) said:
[[wtf do you think a website would do when contacted with information that something they're hosting is libelous and something that might get them sued? They're going to pull the content so they don't get dragged into court. Sounds like scrubbing to me. PJ ought to know better."]]
Please... scrubbing and removing came from your head. Why would Yahoo get dragged into court? They are not responsible for comments as Digg isn't responsible. It's a safe harbor. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_Harbor)
She asked people to link the libel with her comments. To fight lies with the truth. So that it comes up in searches. Sounds like a fair thing to do. - MrKrinkleDude, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7WTF is a biff smear?
- minus9, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8STFU
- DickBreath, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4He posts all day, every day on the Yahoo SCOX message board. For over four years now! (Yes, I follow along daily.)
Could he be a SCO insider? Nothing better to do all day long than troll on message boards? It's not like SCO is doing so much business as to keep its few remaining employees busy. - williamdyer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The Wikipedia article on her points out she held a psychic slumber party at the Amityville Horror house. Now she is a Microsoft shill. Is that a promotion or a lateral move? "I see dead patents?"
- Araxen, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5@wyrdness
You obviously haven't seen how well fed Dvorak is. He is the Internet's biggest troll. - ShuttleDisaster, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1large dildo
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Like a pap smear, only lower & deeper.
- vurtx, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4I hope I never get "BIFF smeared" ...sounds disgusting.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3yeah my mind read dildo and i guess my body instantly clicked the title..
- acceptab1euname, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2Why don't **YOU** read the fscking article - it's the last paragraph:
"So, without holding our breath, what can we do? Whenever you see this lie, you can just politely link to this article to correct the libel. I stress politely. One cure for libelous words can just be correcting them. And if you wanted to let Yahoo know that there is libel on its message boards, that would be helpful. Link to this article in your own blogs, by all means, also, if you write about that article and quote a sentence or two from it. That way when that LinuxInsider article appears in searches on Google and other search engines, so will your correction. It all helps to protect my good name, which I obviously care about and should care about. Their purpose may be to damage Groklaw's reputation so people discount what they read here; so our goal is to protect it, so they will not be misled. And a little geek smarts can go a long way." - http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070619092336304
wtf do you think a website would do when contacted with information that something they're hosting is libelous and something that might get them sued? They're going to pull the content so they don't get dragged into court. Sounds like scrubbing to me. PJ ought to know better. - jmontes, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2Well good for you.
- parkermauney, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2Hehe, dido.
- Phssthpok, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2@acceptab1euname (#7297583) said: >>
[[
"Interesting that PJ repeatedly refers to 'libel' in the LinuxInsider article as well as on the yahoo finance message boards and requests that her readers go forth and do her bidding in getting it scrubbed from the internet. I'm no paralegal, but I thought something wasn't libel until a judge ruled it was - isn't it kinda legally shady to request third parties to contact a website over a legal matter, requesting that content be removed?
]]
Could you please READ the article next time. Where does it say she wants it "scrubbed" or "removed"? - acceptab1euname, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2Yes, that is what I said; it's a legitimate question - did you have a point?
- acceptab1euname, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1Interesting that PJ repeatedly refers to 'libel' in the LinuxInsider article as well as on the yahoo finance message boards and requests that her readers go forth and do her bidding in getting it scrubbed from the internet. I'm no paralegal, but I thought something wasn't libel until a judge ruled it was - isn't it kinda legally shady to request third parties to contact a website over a legal matter, requesting that content be removed? Shouldn't this be a matter left between PJ (or her attorney) and Yahoo and LinuxInsider? Why can't she just contact them herself - is she trying to hide or something?
I've been reading Groklaw since it first went online, and while I've always loved the articles and analysis, I would expect better of PJ, especially since she's been pointing out SCO's legal mis-steps ever since they began their idiotic little quest. - Phssthpok, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1@acceptab1euname (#7297583) said:
>>"Interesting that PJ repeatedly refers to 'libel' in the LinuxInsider article as well as on the yahoo finance message boards and requests that her readers go forth and do her bidding in getting it scrubbed from the internet. I'm no paralegal, but I thought something wasn't libel until a judge ruled it was - isn't it kinda legally shady to request third parties to contact a website over a legal matter, requesting that content be removed - NeMoD, on 10/11/2007, -12/+3Once I read Pamela and dildo, I impulsively clicked it thinking it was Pamela Anderson
- GaryS278, on 10/11/2007, -15/+2yeah, you guys need to stop using stupid acronyms like FUD and BIFF, it's not cool anymore.
ps. how could you read any of that *****, I've seen copypasta more interesting than that. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -16/+3Sorry, I don't google bomb, no matter the situation.
- GaryS278, on 10/11/2007, -15/+0buried as lame for using the acronym BIFF
- 7of7, on 10/11/2007, -42/+3Groklaw seems to be a site specifically for parroting propaganda anyway. I can't see how a site like that can have its reputation ruined.
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