Groklaw No Front for IBM

A Groklaw Reader writes "After all the wild speculation SCO put forth about Pamela Jones, her alleged subpoena by SCO, and her recent vacation due to illness, we now have Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols writing to say 'Yes, there is a PJ.' In his own words, he says, 'Let me address this directly. Yes, Pamela Jones is a real person. I've met her several times [...] I consider her a friend. She is not a front for anyone.' Hopefully, this statement will be enough to put those SCO-induced conspiracy theories to rest."

Re:Dear Darl McPumpndump...

[Anonymous Coward]

Micro$oft , of course!!!!!

SCO got a stalker, not a PI

[Anonymous Coward]

Maureen O'Gara is a yellow-rag hack "journalist" who employs stalking and harassment in place of genuine fact finding. Any bona fide PI would be incensed at being associated with such tactics (that "P" does stand for "Private"). Check the slashdot archives for a refresher [slashdot.org].

Re:Seeing is believing. Conversely....

[twiddlingbits]

Not true. Subpoenas can be squashed by the lawyer of the person who was subpoenaed. It takes a good reason to get a judge to squash but it CAN be done.

Re:Photos or she ain't real!

[Anonymous Coward]

From I understand, she's around 50-60 or so. Well, I guess she could be hot still (even if the statistics aren't in favor of that).Her age was revealed some two three years ago when some journalist, Maureen O'Gara (MOG), had published details about Pamela Jones private life.

The MOG, Maureen O'Gara, was fired because of that.

Oh, since the MOG apparently knows Darl McBride since before, I wonder why they could subpoena her. I guess it might be considered the bitter harassment technique...

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Re:Seeing is believing. Conversely....

[darkonc]

This subpoena is issued in the Novell case, which is still in discovery. Discovery is closed in the IBM case, which is why they probably didn't issue the subpoena there.

Personally, I don't see any reason for Novell to issue a subpoena to PJ in the Novell case. In all probability, anything that she has that relates to Novell is already on Groklaw. Given that SCO, and it's agents have already tried to stalk PJ, I'd say that she's got good reason to avoid any possible subpoena from them, unless they show that they actually have real questions to ask her that relate properly to the Novell case, and that SCO couldn't get from their own (or Novell's) files.

Of course,

Re:Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols

[kevinT]

Sorry folks - Way back before the internet as we know it - on the Santa Cruz forums of CompuServe, Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols was one of the people that provided a lot of support and help to the poor, uneducated (then anyway) System Admin's of SCO machines.

So yea, I believe SJVN is a real person.

And yes, the company calling itself SCO is so totally screwed!