Anybody know if Merkey's filed yet?

Message ID: 274942
Posted By: atul666
Posted On: 2005-06-20 15:08:00
Subject: Anybody know if Merkey's filed yet?

He was going to sue World&&Dog today, right? It was going to be Wednesday, to coincide with both the Legend launch & the summer solstice. Then he said he was moving up the date, like that was going to change a lot of minds or make his foes cower or whatever.

So today's the big day, apparently. Anybody know if he's filed yet? I could use a good laugh.

I suppose he'll claim he found a finger in the Linux kernel source, or something.

Message ID: 274959
Posted By: drichards1953
Posted On: 2005-06-20 16:05:00
Subject: Merkey's list of defendants

This is the list of defendants that Merkey has posted on his site. He claims the actual filing will be posted on his site (merkeylaw.com) sometime this afternoon or tonight. I thought adding IBM and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill was a nice touch.

Note to Merkey, you need to find something else to do. You filings will be dealt with in a manner that will not be to your liking. I suspect that Rule 11 will be invoked rather quickly. You past can and will haunt you. Most of all you are no longer entertainement, you are now annoying.

How did he miss adding the LDS Church to the list of defendants? Or did I miss that?

NAMED PARTIES:

BRUCE PERENS a.k.a. OSRM
PAMELA JONES a.k.a. GROKLAW.COM, a.k.a. OSRM
and GROKLAW.NET
GRENDEL a.k.a. PAGANSAVAGE.COM
MATT MERKEY a.k.a MERKEY.NET
BRANDON SUIT a.k.a. MERKEY.NET
JOHN SAGE a.k.a. FINCHHAVEN.COM
MRBUTTLE a.k.a. IP-WARS.NET
SLASHDOT.ORG
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
DOES 1 through 200,

Message ID: 274983
Posted By: jcauseyfd
Posted On: 2005-06-20 16:52:00
Subject: Re: Merkey's list of defendants

For obvious reasons, I liked

MRBUTTLE a.k.a. IP-WARS.NET

I didn't know MrButtle was also ip-wars.

JCausey

Message ID: 274984
Posted By: drichards1953
Posted On: 2005-06-20 17:00:00
Subject: Merkey removed the "draft" of filing

Well, it seems Jeffy removed his "draft" of his planned filing, it has reverted by to the material that was on his site late last week.

Message ID: 274999
Posted By: atul666
Posted On: 2005-06-20 17:51:00
Subject: Merkey on LWN

He found another group of people talking about him, so of course he had to show up and start menacing everybody. He's been posting to this thread repeatedly since yesterday, so if there's anything you feel like saying to him, this may be a good place to say it.

http://lwn.net/Articles/140157/

Message ID: 275121
Posted By: mrbuttle
Posted On: 2005-06-21 08:43:00
Subject: Re: Merkey's list of defendants

<<< This is the list of defendants ...>>>

merkey.net and finchhaven.com have already removed the content that offended JVM. i_s_g a.k.a finchhaven.com has also removed all SCOG and GL content, and suggests that we get a life.

Message ID: 275134
Posted By: walterbyrd
Posted On: 2005-06-21 10:04:00
Subject: merkey nuisance suits effective?

PJ won't comment on merkey's latest stunt. In fact, I'm wondering if PJ isn't pulling anti-merkey posts.

I posted a small quasi-joke post on groklaw. PJ suggested that scox was outsourcing lawsuits to wallace. I commented that: if msft outsources lawsuits to scox, and scox outsources lawsuits to wallace, then who does wallace outsource to? Who is low enough of bogo-lawsuit filing food-chain? I know - merkey!

The post was deleted. Could merkey have groklaw intimidated? I wonder if other anti-merkey stuff is being pulled from the web?

Message ID: 275140
Posted By: karl_w_lewis
Posted On: 2005-06-21 10:15:00
Subject: Re: merkey nuisance suits effective?

>> The post was deleted. Could merkey have groklaw intimidated? I wonder if other anti-merkey stuff is being pulled from the web? <<

It seems to me that it is very likely that PJ and her moderators are pulling all such comments off the site just because of the fuss Merkey causes. Does that mean his behavior is intimidating? Yes, I suppose so. Does that make it effective? Well, depends on what you choose to measure, I think.

Merkey isn't the story. As funny as your comment was, (and I do love a good joke), it isn't part of the SCOX story. So PJ chooses to focus on other things. i_s_g, for example, pulled the Merkey stuff he had, too, because he decided it wasn't worth *any* trouble.

Who cares what anyone says about that nut job? It could cost one some money just to defend yourself, who needs the hassle?

I don't believe that PJ pulled the article she posted wherein she quotes the Judge's comments that JVM lives in an alternate reality. And that's one of the things Merkey most strongly objects to.

On the bright side, JVM managed to call a good deal of attention to himself, again, and that had to be worse for his reputation than any snide comment I might make. (That makes a good enough joke, all by itself.)

KWL

Message ID: 275141
Posted By: jcauseyfd
Posted On: 2005-06-21 10:18:00
Subject: Re: merkey nuisance suits effective?

walterbyrd,

According to posts here confirmed by several people, myself included, isg pulled all of his SCO stuff (including the Merkey stuff) from his finchhaven site. I don't think it was necessarily b/c of Merkey - he has just moved on to other stuff and didn't need the bother.

Earlier today there was a post indicating merkey.net had pulled the stuff from their site. From some e-mails I saw, I think the merkey.net folks decided to take the high road as they saw it and removed the material b/c they did not want to offend him (that's not their purpose), not b/c of his threats.

I don't know about any of the others. ip-wars.net has not pulled anything and I don't plan to (and yes, there is a little bit of waffle in there only because I've learned to never say never) unless I receive a court order to do so.

JCausey

Message ID: 275147
Posted By: drichards1953
Posted On: 2005-06-21 10:54:00
Subject: Someone please post the draft of filing

It would be nice if someone who thought to save a copy of the draft of his supposed filing that Merkey put up on his site. It was interesting reading as it was, well ummm, different. Since Merkey decided to take it down after it got noticed it must raise questions about his real motivations and intent.

Message ID: 275150
Posted By: jcauseyfd
Posted On: 2005-06-21 11:00:00
Subject: Re: Request: Summary of Merkey Story

stray,

Here's some background info:

http://www.ip-wars.net/story/2004/12/18/214428/39

I guess this article is why he wants to include MRBUTTLE a.k.a. IP-WARS.NET in the suit. Note this article is somewhat dated. It also does not touch on anything related to his offers for copyrights to kernel stuff.

hth,

JCausey

Message ID: 275154
Posted By: infosecgroupie
Posted On: 2005-06-21 11:12:00
Subject: Re: merkey nuisance suits effective?

Hey Jeff..

>>> isg pulled all of his SCO stuff (including the Merkey stuff) from his finchhaven site. I don't think it was necessarily b/c of Merkey - he has just moved on to other stuff and didn't need the bother. <<<

Close enough.

(As you can see, I'm still wasting way too much time lurking here :-/ )

I basically either *really* do something, or I don't do it at all.

A year ago and more I was *really* doing the whole SCOX/Grok*/OSRM thing, and then I stopped last November.

I left the pages up because I could see that some small number of people were (presumably) sitll looking at them, and therefore they represented some small resource for the community.

The Merkey stuff was *always* a very minor sub-plot (sorry Jeff!) and was to me way more comedy/soap opera than any substance.

When Merkey resurfaced just now and suddenly world+dog was (by *gasp* the dozens!) thronging back to look at that Merkey cr*p to the exclusion of everything else, I thought "Screw it, none of this means anything to me, if people want to read about Merkey let 'em find all this nonsense on their own..." since every word I had ever posted was a direct quote by Merkey and is freely available anywhere the LKML is archived.

Finally, the "Get a Life" thing is a bit harsh, but it represented the best widely-used expression of my frame of mind when I took the stuff down. Even that's going to go away in a few days, unless I forget about it...

Clearly all of you have lives. I do, too.

I'm just doing other stuff now...

i_s_g

Message ID: 275159
Posted By: jgaiser
Posted On: 2005-06-21 11:25:00
Subject: Re: Someone please post the draft of fi

One more time...

http://www.oldhippy.org/Merkey.tgz

Message ID: 275186
Posted By: lumber_cartel
Posted On: 2005-06-21 14:24:00
Subject: Re: merkey nuisance suits effective?

%% PJ won't comment on merkey's latest stunt. In fact, I'm wondering if PJ isn't pulling anti-merkey posts.

The first thing that Counsel tell you to do when involved in possible litigation is, "Shut up."

Yeah, I know we're used to SCOX. I suspect that PJ is taking her cues from IBM and real lawyers instead.

Message ID: 275201
Posted By: spamsux99
Posted On: 2005-06-21 15:22:00
Subject: Re: Merkey's list of defendants

Merkey may deservedly be on the receiving end of non-stop ridicule, but you have to tip your hat.

The guy managed to do what a $30 million legal team, MOG, Enderle, Microsoft, and various other parasites have continuously failed to do. Stop bloggers, forums, and various web site owners from posting criticism about him, with the mere threat of litigation.

So much for truth, freedom of speech, all that.

If SCO wanted to shut down Groklaw, they hired the wrong legal team.

Message ID: 277322
Posted By: walterbyrd
Posted On: 2005-06-29 09:55:00
Subject: Merkey was somewhat successful

Groklaw won't touch the Merkey case. Posts about Merkey which may be considered unflatering are being deleted.

I posted far more rude comments about the Utah judges, than about Merkey. Guess which posts were deleted on Groklaw?

Looks like O'Gara and Merkey may have PJ somewhat intimidated.

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