Booted from Groklaw

Well, what I expected has happened: Groklaw’s PJ has had enough of my disagreeing with her and objecting to having most of my words ignored and the few remaining ones twisted, and has revoked my Groklaw account:

So, you come full circle, attacking me and Groklaw. I assume that means you don’t wish to be a member of Groklaw now, taking into consideration that membership implies a desire to help out here?

As I said in my reply:

Well, I still wish to help out Groklaw, but it’s obvious that you, and the folks here, don’t want my help – and it’s been obvious ever since update #3 to this article. I was just too optimistic to see it.

That’s why I have my own blog: so I can tell my side of the story without having you ignore the majority of what I say and twist the rest to attack me. Enjoy the company of your fellow Kool-Aid drinkers.

I had to post that reply as Anonymous, since I was unable to log in.

The writing was on the wall when she picked one statement out of my long post, replied to it with a vicious attack on my credentials as an open source community member, and ignored all the rest of what I wrote. I can now only assume she did so because she found the facts inconvenient.

She is of course entirely within her rights to kick me out. Nevertheless, I think that she did so, after doing to me what she has, speaks far more to her true integrity and support for the community – especially those parts of it that dare to disagree with her in even the slightest detail – than it does to mine. In one comment, early on, the poster expressed pleasure that I had come to engage them, unlike SCO, which refused to do so despite repeated requests. I now understand why they didn’t, and cannot recommend in good conscience that anyone else who Groklaw decides is a mean, nasty, Microsoft-backed enemy of open source – whether the accusation is true or not – go there and try to set the record straight.

Nevertheless, I recognize that the site still has a role to play, as long as PJ’s obvious pro-IBM bias is understood up front. Accordingly, I’ve sent them a $25 contribution. We’ll see if they keep it. No, I don’t expect a thing in return.

Update: PJ refunded my contribution with no comment.

Update 2: Well, no comment directly to me in the PayPal transaction. She posted:

All right, Jay, what kind of hypocritical game is this? You just made a contribution to Groklaw financially.

I seriously don’t want your money, considering all the circumstances, and I want you to tell us why you sent it, given your remarks.

I posted the last paragraph of this posting in reply, and added:

Despite your accusations that you don’t think I told it like it is, and despite your continued twisting of my words, I still believe that. My contribution is yours for the asking, no strings attached.

It is, too.