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Florian Mueller Outs Himself As Oracle Employee

Posted by timothy on from the hey-it-beats-not-saying-it dept.

eldavojohn writes "So you're commenting on your highly visible blog about patent case after patent case that deal with corporations battling over open source stuff, what does it matter if you're taking money from one and not the other? If you don't see any ethical problems with that, you might be Florian Mueller. Groklaw's PJ (who has been suspicious of Florian's ties to other giants like Microsoft for quite sometime) has noticed that Florian Mueller has decided to go full disclosure and admit that all his commentary on the Oracle v Google case might be tainted by his employment by Oracle. It seems he's got a bunch of consulting money coming his way from Oracle but I'm sure that won't undermine any of his assessments like Android licenses violate the GPL or that Oracle will win $6 billion from Google and Google was "at risk" of not settling despite the outcome that the charges later dropped to a small fraction of the $6 billion. Like so many other times, PJ's hunch was right."

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  1. PJ has her own biases by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Groklaw's coverage of the case has been massively one-sided as well, and appears to contradict the general feeling / impression left by news sources.

    Not to excuse Florian's earlier non-disclosure, but it's important to note that PJ has her own agenda and bias that influences Groklaw's coverage.

    1. Re:PJ has her own biases by man_of_mr_e · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Exactly. This is rich coming from her. After all, she refuses to disclose her biases. She refuses to disclose who she works for (or even just if she works for anyone that could be a conflict of interest). It's been exposed in the past that she receives services from IBM, and she strongly supports people like Rob Weir and Bob Sutor, both of which have very strong ties to corporate interests in what they espouse.

      This is way beyond the pot calling the kettle black here, this is the pot complaining that the kettle boils water.

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  2. Yeah... So? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'll give a shit about his employment when Slashdot and Groklaw stop kissing Google's ass.