Maureen O'Gara No Longer Welcome at LinuxWorld

flood6 writes "On the heels of yesterday's article about unrest at LinuxWorld, editor James Turner is reporting in his blog that Sys-Con Media has decided to purge Maureen O'Gara from the print and online publications." From the post: "Sys-con Media listened to what I and my fellow editors, their advertisers and the readership was saying, and made the correct decision. Maureen O'Gara's bylined material will no longer appear anywhere in the Sys-con universe of sites or publications. We have received this commitment in writing from Fuat Kircaali, the publisher." PJ at Groklaw also has commentary on this development.

Hey

[Neil Blender]

That's sort of like kicking Michael the hell out of Slashdot.

Nah Nah Nah Nah

[RailGunner]

Nah Nah Nah Nah,
Nah Nah Nah Nah,
Hey Hey Hey
GOODBYE!

And please don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Interesting article at Groklaw...

[Anonymous Coward]

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...but I don't understand that sort of complicated legalese.

One Letter Away from

[ackthpt]

O'Hara, but still Gone With The Wind

'n good riddance

Damn Irish.......

[KingBahamut]

Always out to keep the Scottish Man down.

O'Gara, dug your hole deep, now lets see you get out of it.

An ad-hominem cheap shot

[Dark Paladin]

Ding, dong, the witch is dead
Which old witch? The wicked witch!
Ding, dong, the wicked witch is dead!

Re:Who is she and what did she do?

[Anonymous Coward]

Who is Maureen O'Gara? Well, she's the inspiration for this [slashdot.org]: Feel free to email her a copy :-)

I HATE MOGs

I *really* *hate* MoGs.

The WalMart down the road was selling Mini Maureen O'Gara Trolls (MoGTrolls) for 2 cents a piece. That was even less than the 5 cents a piece I paid for those damn monkeys ... so I figured "What have I got to loose?"

So I bought 250 MoGTrolls for $5.00. I mean, what's 5 buck, right? What could possibly go wrong?

I took my 250 MoGTrolls home. I have a big car. One of them insisted on driving. Its' name was Maureen O'Gara (all the MoGTrolls answer to Maureen O'Gara). It was retarded, even for a troll. In fact, now that I had them outside in the daylight, it was obvious that they were all "more than a few bricks short of a full load." I couldn't let the MoGTroll drive, so I kicked it in the head. It LIKED being kicked in the head! WTF? So I obliged it by kicking it some more. Soon, all the MoGTrolls were kicking each other and giggling like crazy, snot running down their ugly troll faces. This made it hard to drive, but we finally made it home.

I herded them into the basement. They didn't adapt well to their new environment. They stopped kicking each other, and just sulked. Then they began pulling the hair out of each other. It quickly became a mess. Oh, and nobody told me that MoGTrolls aren't toilet trained. I googled and yahoo'd for "toilet training MoGTrolls", but all that came back was "lots of luck, sucker!" and "never been done."

The novelty of having 250 MoGTrolls had worn off.

The MogTrolls got out of the basement and kept trying to use my computers, even though everyone knows that MoGTrolls can't write for shit. They kept on, though, and started posting all sorts of weird, distorted stuff. I mean REALLY bent! So my ISP cut me off. I hate MoGTrolls.

I had to find another ISP. And the damn MoGTrolls got me kicked off that one, too. I went from high-speed cable to adsl to dialup to - well, lets just say that TCP/IP over a clothesline really sux. I can only post when my neighbours are doing their laundry. I feel SO low having to steal bandwidth through their underware flapping in the breeze!

Did I mention that I hate MoGTrolls?

At least by now I knew why the MoGTrolls were so cheap - nobody would want one. All they do is sit around and make rambling random noise and emit noxious vapours, and excrete stuff that even the dogs don't want to sniff ... and dogs will eat their own puke!

I didn't know what to do - I was at wits end. So I went out to the local Home Depot and bought some muriatic acid, the stuff you use on concrete. I took one of the MoGTrolls and dipped it into the muriatic acid. The acid turned into goo. I poored some on the sidewalk outside, and it quickly melted the ice. Unfortunately, it also completely removed the top inch of concrete. The city had to replace the sidewalk. I got the bill last week. I hate MoGTrolls.

I decided to kill them all and throw them in the garbage. Do you have any idea how HARD it is to kill a MoGTroll? They're worse than cockroaches! You can drop a load of bricks on them, squish them flatter than a penny after the train's gone over it, and next morning they're back at it again, spitting, being mean, and just looking butt-ugly as usual.

So I tried to have a garage sale. I TRIED to make them look half-way decent, but MoGTrolls are like SCO stock - no amount of lipstick will make that pig look good. Not only did I not sell a single MoGTroll; the police gave me a fine for disturbing the peace. All the kids in the neighbourhood are having nightmares, and the school has to have a psychologist on staff full-time to deal with all the trauma that being exposed to a whole herd of MoGTrolls can cause in young minds. I hate MoGTrolls.

I tried to flush one down the toilet. It didn't work. It's still there. Then I

Re:Hey

[Anonymous Coward]

Well both Michael and Maureen love cock...

Re:Since it sounds like you understand this...

[mattyrobinson69]

ive not read her stuff but if she overlooked sco's case's weaknesses, what the hell did she write about? what is it about her blank pages that make them so much better than anybody elses?

Re:Interesting article at Groklaw...

[Anonymous Coward]

I thought the exact opposite... Finally an article on groklaw that I understand. Not really interensting though

Re:On whores

[multiplexo]

I hope for Ms. O'Garas sake that she's very well paid. Because as a journalist she's dead. And - in my opinion of course - her writings represent the equivalent of a crack whore in San Franciscos Tenderloin district offering a blowjob for $7.95 (incl. sales tax).

What is reprehensible and really hard to stomach is that she stooped to such lows as attacking Ms. Jones privacy.

Reminds me of the methods of a science fiction space opera nut cult.

Naahhhh, she'll resurface on Free Republic posting under the handle "fudskank" and after she explains how the liberal media silenced her will end up as a tech commentator for Fox News. She'll be a perfect complement for Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter.

Re:On whores

[Frodo Crockett]

her writings represent the equivalent of a crack whore in San Franciscos Tenderloin district offering a blowjob for $7.95 (incl. sales tax).

Where in San Francisco is this Tenderloin district you speak of?

Simply Amazing...

[emtboy9]

SCO, MOG et al have been trying to destroy GrokLaw for some time now. And with one bit of good news, Slashdot does the dirty work for them...

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Re:On whores

[CaptainZapp]

I reall think you are doing the hard working San Francisco crack whores a _huge_ injustice with this comparison.

Upon consideration; you're right, AC.

I hereby apologise to all hard working San Francisco crack whores for my truely unfair statement. Girls, you shine in comparison with Ms. O'Gara!

The REAL commentary from Groklaw's webmaster

[JPelorat]

"My world is pain!"

Re:Since it sounds like you understand this...

[Master of Transhuman]

This idiot's post is modded "insightful"?

I guess Maureen doesn't have a job, so she's modding /. now?

Re:How the hell is this funny?

[Master of Transhuman]

Yes, it's true. This man has no dick.

Well, that's what I heard!

Re:Who is MOG?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, who is she REALLY?

I mean, where does she live? (pictures please!) Where does her mother live? (yes, more pictures!). What is her religion and what can be found in the back seat of her car?

If we are going to explain who someone is we should at least use high journalistic standards in finding that out. I'll bet no one has even gone through her trash.

Pathetic.

Maureen's kinda funny.

[wonkavader]

I just now read that article she wrote. I think it's the first thing by her I've ever read. Someone copied it into a comment on slashdot.

She really reminds me of the gossip columnists in a Howard Hawks comedy of the 30's or 40's. It's weird how she takes you back.

Those were fun films, but I had assumed the somewhat stock characters were a parodies. I guess there ARE people who talk/write like that.

But I'd expect her to write for a paper called _The Tattler_.

Re:Since it sounds like you understand this...

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like she's simply blown her career as a journalist for highly unethical behaviour

I do not believe the world works the way you think it does...

Re:Here's the commentary from Groklaw's webmaster

[WindBourne]

hey, get back to coding over at groklaw.

Re:On whores

[WindBourne]

If you are single, the woman is the hotter one. If you are married, it is the bus.

Re:But we already knew who PJ is

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait. Who is this Maureen person, and why do we care about Peter Jackson's personal details? And what does it have to do with SCO and Linux??? All I care about is whether The Hobbit will ever get made.

Re:O'Gara May Have Violated Federal Law

[iceborer]

How could O'Gara comment on the furnishings of the apartment, and know the details of phone calls made, if she did not obtain illegal entry into the apartment

Unlike the basement of one's parents, people's apartments quite frequently have relatively transparent aperatures called windows. Perhaps she looked in through one of those. As an aside, sometimes these "windows" are left open to allow "air" to flow through as well.

Hi Maureen

[theolein]

How's it going with the job search

There once was a shill-hack named Mog

[merc]

Who penned for the suit-happy SCOG
under blogging pretense;
Due to bane consequence
We'll have to wait for the Mog-Epilogue

Re:But we already knew who PJ is

[vsprintf]

No, but the phone company also isn't releasing one particular phone number and address at a time in which an enraged minority element may do them physical harm.

Response 1: Thulium doesn't migrate quickly across telephone connections.

Response 2: Who are you calling a "minority element," you *&!!$%! astroturfer, and what makes you think I'm enraged?

Response 3: Yo' Mater!

Lighten up. You have a point, but public figures give up some rights to privacy, and O'Garra certainly wants to be public. She'd probably enjoy talking dirty, er, I mean communicating with a bunch of heated young males. And unless she's got a server, that's the most harm she'll get from Slashbots.