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Pamela JonesPamela Jones is the creator of Groklaw (2003) and Grokline (2004). She is a journalist and a paralegal. She used to work for Open Source Risk Management as Director of Litigation Research, work unrelated to Groklaw. Her purpose in founding Groklaw was to make legal research and legal research techniques available to the lay person. The site has covered the SCO litigation in detail and anticipating further legal threats against Linux and the open source community, Jones launched Grokline, a Unix ownership timeline project, in May, 2004. Jones reveals very little personal information, as she considers her private information is not relevant to her work with Groklaw. In the beginning the site only referred to her by her initials. - "I originally wanted to stay anonymous, in a sense, by just saying PJ. Eventually media attention and other factors made it impossible to remain just PJ but I would have if I could have. I have no desire to be famous, for one thing. And I have been creatively influenced by Scott McCloud's work. He points out in Understanding Comics (p. 45-51) in a section on iconic representation that people respond most strongly to a drawing of a character that simplifies to the point that anyone can identify with the character. I guess I was hoping for that effect. In other words, I was hoping people could assume whatever they wanted and just focus on what I said, rather than on who was saying it. For that reason, I chose PJ, because it could be anyone, either sex, any nationality, anyone and no one in particular. I wanted participation by anyone interested in the SCO story. No politics. Nothing extraneous. Just an effort to locate and provide evidence that could be useful. I knew the community could answer SCO, if they just knew what was needed. And they have."
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