I used to read groklaw on rotation with slashdot, freshmeat and a few other sites. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot about law from it. But speaking as an

I used to read groklaw on rotation with slashdot, freshmeat and a few other sites. I really enjoyed it and learned a lot about law from it. But speaking as an outsider, something changed and it became a bit of a torches and pitchforks site. When there was a post that was basically saying “you’re either with us or you’re against us”, I had to quit. I thought PJ did a huge service to the community in the earlier days of Groklaw, it is certainly a part of the lore of Linux and the internet as a whole. Sad that it took such a toll on her.