Here's the
article. Man, how many memories
flood my mind and heart when I reread it.
It's about
learning that back in 2004, SCO tried to get the court
to gag Groklaw
and Linus and Eben Moglen and Eric
Raymond.
Hahahahahahahaha
For the
guy pretending to be in Costa Rica who
suggests I should mind my own business,
I'll repeat
what I wrote on that occasion about not
shutting up despite
intimidation:
So SCO tried to gag Groklaw beginning in 2004. It
moved on to false insinuations to journalists, ugly innuendo during a conference
call about me and Groklaw, having friendly journalists with PIs try to dig up
dirt on me, a massive vilification astroturf campaign all over the Internet, and
then to intimidation with their recent motion. Well, I'm gagging, all right, but
not in a good way. And certainly not in the way SCO hoped.
I will respond
like this, seriously for a moment. This is America. I am an American citizen. I
was born here, born to certain rights as my birthright. I'm allowed to cover
this litigation without being harassed and intimidated or threatened or gagged.
I'm allowed to present facts that disprove SCO's public allegations. I am
allowed to write what I believe is the truth, and I'm allowed to present
research about the allegations. I was born with these rights, and they are
precious to me. I also have rights as a journalist. This isn't Malaysia or
Russia, where journalists are muzzled or end up suddenly dead execution-style in
a gutter somewhere. Is it? What is wrong with these people? Didn't they study
about America and freedom of speech and of the press in civics class? There is a
long tradition of freedom of speech here, and SCO would like to deprive me of
it. At the least.
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