“Groklaw, a widely read Web site that has sided with IBM in its
legal battle with The SCO Group, receives free hosting from an
academic research project that is in part funded by IBM, according
to the project’s director.“Paul Jones, director of the University of North Carolina’s
ibiblio project, confirmed in an interview that ibiblio provides
free Web hosting services to Groklaw and that ibiblio is funded in
part by grants from IBM as well as several other tech companies
with a strong interest in the promotion of the Linux operating
system…”
“More unpleasant insinuations, as you may have noticed by Paul
McDougall on Information Week with the unbiased (ha ha) title, ‘IBM
Helps Fund Web Hosting For Anti-SCO Site Groklaw.’ Yessir. No point
of view there. What a stretching of facts to suit a purpose! May I
please be the first to say out loud what you are all thinking?
—“So what…?”
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