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| Oracle pays Florian Mueller, Google pays nobody |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-08-17 21:42:02 |
| "Oracle has admitted to the court that it retains the frequently-cited Florian Mueller of the popular blog FOSS Patents as a consultant. The official disclosure comes a week after the judge in Oracle's lawsuit against Google took the extraordinary step of ordering both parties to reveal any paid journalists or bloggers on their payrolls. Both companies filed their responses today, and Mueller is the only person named in either filing." Google paid nobody. Also, if you're surprised by Mueller being paid by Oracle - I have a Paleis op de Dam to sell you. |
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| What? |
| By zima on 2012-08-17 22:07:57 |
| No red paint scout girl? From where did this Paleis op de Dam stuff suddenly come from? |
 - Score: 3 |
| RE: What? |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-08-17 22:25:35 |
| Where I'm from, selling girls is kinda frowned upon. |
| - Score: 7 |
| Not news |
| By bowkota on 2012-08-17 23:07:53 |
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Anyone who reads Mueller's blog (especially the bitter ones) should be aware that he's a paid consultant for Oracle. He has informed his readers on numerous occasions that he is a paid consultant for Oracle. There's no hidden secret that has been suddenly exposed. |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: Not news |
| By JAlexoid on 2012-08-17 23:27:28 |
| 2 isn't numerous. |
| - Score: 6 |
| To be fair... |
| By galvanash on 2012-08-17 23:37:02 |
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On one hand, Mueller did admit to this himself back in April - so it isn't exactly news. I think the fact that Oracle had paid shills, while Google had none, speaks volumes in and of itself. On the other hand, voluntarily outing yourself as a paid whore does at least demonstrate a degree of honesty... But your still a paid whore. If the guy had an ounce of ethics, he wouldn't be doing analysis on the details of an ongoing legal disputes when he is being paid as a consultant by one of the parties. You can be a consultant and an analyst at the same time, as long as you don't ever let one influence the other. I know that nowadays no one considers analysts to be "ethical", but all it takes to change that is for them to start acting that way... |
| - Score: 9 |
| RE: Not news |
| By galvanash on 2012-08-17 23:45:59 |
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> Anyone who reads Mueller's blog (especially the bitter ones) should be aware that he's a paid consultant for Oracle. Being a paid consultant, and then running an industry analysis blog and posting about the details of a legal dispute involving one of your clients is highly unethical. It really doesn't matter if you disclose that your paid by one of the parties, its still unethical. The minute you comment at all about a legal case your client is involved in you stopped doing analysis and started doing propaganda. He could have easily saved his reputation by simply recusing himself... Florian Mueller is a paid whore. He may as well put that at the bottom of his bio. |
| - Score: 14 |
| oracle's behavior sucks |
| By TechGeek on 2012-08-18 01:28:15 |
| Today's release didn't stop Oracle from insisting that Google has a whole network of shills working behind the scenes to orchestrate a complete PR make believe world. They all just do it for free apparently. |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE: Not news |
| By ichi on 2012-08-18 01:45:08 |
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> He has informed his readers on numerous occasions that he is a paid consultant for Oracle. There's no hidden secret that has been suddenly exposed. Admiting being paing by Oracle only when hard-pressed to do so doesn't cut it. He's publishing articles from a "patent expert" standpoint, and he should have added a notice about his relationship with Oracle in every article covering anything Oracle-related. I know being a blogger doesn't make you a journalist, but if you'll be kinda pretending being one you could also adopt some journalism ethics. |
| - Score: 15 |
| getting worse |
| By bowkota on 2012-08-18 08:38:17 |
| Wow I had no idea the comments in here had deteriorated so much. Name calling and trolling seems to be a common occurrence. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: getting worse |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-08-18 10:17:39 |
| Name calling? Where? |
| - Score: 1 |
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