Groklaw's Jones Looks Beyond SCO

Wired News: "Pamela Jones is known to millions of online readers as 'PJ,' the editor and moderator of Groklaw. They also know her as the heart of the open-source community's legal battle against litigation aimed at the Linux kernel and other free and open-source software.

Since its launch on May 17, 2003, Groklaw has morphed from a one-woman blog into an open-source legal research project involving hundreds of people -- an effective counterweight to the legal departments of companies like SCO Group and Microsoft.

Last week Jones, a paralegal by trade, became the director of litigation risk research for Open Source Risk Management, or OSRM. The company provides services intended to protect corporate users of open-source software against legal issues such as copyright, patent and trade-secret claims.

In an e-mail interview, Jones spoke with Wired News on the impetus behind Groklaw. She also outlined pending and possible legal threats against open-source projects and developers, her thoughts on software patents and the positive side of the SCO legal saga."

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