It is run and edited by Pamela Jones and complements her Groklaw website, which acts as a focus for legal news of interest to the Free and Open Source Software communities, including in particular SCO Group's litigation against IBM and others and its attacks on Linux.
The lawsuit has been widely derided, and has been described on Groklaw as "the stupidest lawsuit since the world began".
On May 16, 2011 Groklaw's Pamela Jones announced that Groklaw's new editor would be Mark Webbink.