{"id":1690,"date":"2011-05-10T13:41:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2011-05-10T13:41:01","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T17:41:01","slug":"pj-goodbye-and-good-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/pj-goodbye-and-good-luck.html","title":{"rendered":"PJ, Goodbye and Good Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/blog\/images\/groklaw.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a time when daggers were drawn on Linux and its demise was plotted in dark detail.\u00a0 At that hour stepped out a shieldmaiden with a blog, and that blog was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/\">Groklaw<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Eight years later, we hear the news that Groklaw will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/article.php?story=20110409161444432\">cease new postings<\/a> after May 16th.\u00a0 My sadness in hearing this news is more than equaled by my gratitude to PJ and her community of researchers and commentators, for their enormous effort and unparalleled achievement over these years.\u00a0\u00a0 The world is a better place because of PJ.\u00a0 Who can hope to say better?<\/p>\n<p>As a retrospective of a different kind, I&#8217;ve taken the titles from every Groklaw article since its start and created a &#8220;word cloud&#8221; from them, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordle.net\/\">Wordle<\/a>.\u00a0 This shows, at a glance, the issues that have dominated the attention of Groklaw over the years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/blog\/images\/groklaw-cloud.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when daggers were drawn on Linux and its demise was plotted in dark detail.\u00a0 At that hour stepped out a shieldmaiden with a blog, and that blog was Groklaw.\u00a0\u00a0 Eight years later, we hear the news that Groklaw will cease new postings after May 16th.\u00a0 My sadness in hearing this news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-open-source","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}