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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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| RE[2]: What? |
| By Soulbender on 2012-08-18 10:18:19 |
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> Where I'm from, selling girls is kinda frowned upon. Uhm..are you sure you're from Holland? |
 - Score: 4 |
| RE[3]: What? |
| By Thom_Holwerda on 2012-08-18 10:29:00 |
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> > Where I'm from, selling girls is kinda frowned upon. Uhm..are you sure you're from Holland? Note the "kinda". |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE[2]: getting worse |
| By Bill Shooter of Bul on 2012-08-18 12:02:21 |
| I think he might be offended by the whole Florian is a paid whore thing. But that's not trolling or name calling, its an apt description, imho. |
| - Score: 5 |
| "Google pays nobody" |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-08-18 13:09:54 |
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"As for Google, the company flatly tells us that "no one on our side paid journalists, bloggers, or other commentators to write about this case." The actual statement filed with the court is a bit more vague, however. Google says it's never directly paid anyone to write about the case, but it has relationships with a number of institutions like universities, political organizations, and trade associations, all of whom might employ bloggers or journalists to advocate for certain positions." Oh well, they said they don't evil so it has to be true. Still, it's less easy to doubt Google than Oracle's donations to somebody who accepts the money, yet remains neutral. |
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| RE[2]: What? |
| By zima on 2012-08-18 15:56:45 |
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> Where I'm from, selling girls is kinda frowned upon. Must note you conspicuously didn't write the all-inclusive "selling people is kinda frowned upon"... |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE[3]: getting worse |
| By Beta on 2012-08-19 11:39:22 |
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> I think he might be offended by the whole Florian is a paid whore thing. But that's not trolling or name calling, its an apt description, imho. Yup, doing tricks for cash is pretty much exactly as described. |
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| Comment by smashIt |
| By smashIt on 2012-08-19 17:29:22 |
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> Google says it's never directly paid anyone to write about the case, but it has relationships with a number of institutions like universities, political organizations, and trade associations, all of whom might employ bloggers or journalists to advocate for certain positions. and don't forget that most bloggers are earning money through adsense |
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| RE[2]: Not news |
| By bassbeast on 2012-08-19 23:02:37 |
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But which is worse, the paid whore or the paid troll? Personally I'd rather deal with the paid whore where I know who they are whoring to (so I can avoid any articles involving their master) than deal with articles spammed all over the Internet by the likes of Nichols and Thurott who whole job it is to write the most flamebait articles possible to turn as much of the net into flamewars as they can to ratchet up their page views. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Comment by smashIt |
| By kwan_e on 2012-08-20 06:45:03 |
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> and don't forget that most bloggers are earning money through adsense From what I experience, most bloggers that "earn" "money" through adsense will only be too happy to talk shit about Google... |
| - Score: 3 |
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