Ever eager to please PJ, I changed my sig, and replied to her post.  Changing my sig did not change the sigs on my prior posts, I asked her to give me edit privs or to delete them.  I never heard back from her, my offending post was deleted.  Curiously, the other posts with the offensive sigs were never sandboxed or deleted.

The offending post is gone, but someone else quoted it in a reply.  It went something along the lines of "So, basically, you want the community to freely provide information, so OSRM can make money off of providing indemnification to linux users?".

After this treatment, I grew suspicious of PJ.  My faith in her had been shaken.  After a while, I decided that I had been spending too much time wearing my tinfoil hat.  Surely PJ was sincere, she was just too busy to bother getting back to me.  I wrote a self deprecating, satirical view of my paranoia titled "DANGER, DANGER, Don't talk to strangers!".  I laughed at myself, and moved on.

Flash forward to October of 2004.  I was going to a wedding in North Carolina.  I am a night owl, was addicted to groklaw, and knew that there was no internet connection at the hotel.  This was a problem.  An itch, and I scratched it.  I wrote a php app name glsuck that downloads groklaw, parses the articles and comments, and sticks them into a database.  A database that I could view offline, late at night, in North Carolina, in a room without an internet connection...

It didn't take long.  It was actually a quick port from another app I had previously written called yasuck.  Yeah, yasuck, an app to download yahoo message boards messages, parse them, stick them into a database for offline viewing.

Being a F/OSS kind of guy, I announced to the yahoo SCOX message board that I had written glsuck, and it was available for download under the GPL.  Bad idea.

A couple of weeks later, my groklaw account no longer worked.  Poof, gone.  All of my comments now appear to be written by someone named "anonymous".  

My last post to groklaw had been almost two months prior.  The post had to do with discussion about a transcription of a SCO Conference call, which had recently been posted as an article on groklaw.  I provided the transcription.  Spent hours on it, posted it on the yahoo SCOX message board.  The eagle eye of Brenda spotted it, asked if I minded it being posted on groklaw.  No problem I said, glad to make a contribution...

So there you go, the story of a BGE™.  I hope you can learn from my experience.  The separation has been bitter.  I have lost all respect.  My love betrayed me.