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Blake Stowell Email to Maureen O'Gara: "I Need You to Send a Jab PJ's Way"
Mar 13, 2010, 00 :04 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (6503 reads)

(Other stories by Pamela Jones)

"So. Now I know. Now we all know.

"Blake Stowell, then the PR guy for SCO, sent an email to Maureen O'Gara, saying "I need you to send a jab PJ's way," and then right afterwards she wrote that invasive so-called expose, in which she revealed, or at least intended to reveal, things like who I called on my phone. A la the HP scandal. She got fired for doing it the way she did, and the then-publisher apologized to me publicly, but she says in the deposition she's not sorry a bit.

"We learn this by reading excerpts from her deposition, previously under seal, attached to a letter [PDF] SCO's attorney sent to the court. SCO doesn't want the part of her deposition video played where she talks about me and Groklaw. It's beyond eye-opening, however, despite her pretense, as I see it, that there is no connection between the two events.

"They also don't want the part about an email she sent to SCO, subject line, "I want war pay," played. It's allegedly humor. Just chatter. But you know, she is on the list of people SCO owes money to, now that I think of it, filed in connection with the bankruptcy. I wonder for what?

"It isn't acceptable, in my eyes, that SCO's attorneys invariably smear Groklaw in every filing that mentions it. They don't just say "Groklaw," they say "the anti-SCO website, Groklaw." One can say quite a lot in legal filings, and get away with it, but there is a line where it becomes libel, when it is gratuitous, and that language is gratuitous."

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There are a few.  ...   Which of the IBM writers is doing the calling?   
Subie
Mar 13, 2010, 01:40:57
 
I think we need to send an OK, love you  ...   a Jab PJ's Way   
Lars
Mar 13, 2010, 01:56:30
 
> There are a few..I am pretty certain t ...   Re: Which of the IBM writers is doing the calling&   
Rainer Weikusat
Mar 14, 2010, 20:30:00
 
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