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Interviews: Ask Florian Mueller About Software Patents and Copyrights
Florian Mueller is a blogger, software developer and former consultant who writes about software patents and copyright issues on his FOSSPatents blog. In 2004 he founded the NoSoftwarePatents campaign, and has written about Microsoft's multi-billion-dollar Android patent licensing business and Google's appeal of Oracle's Android-Java copyright case to the Supreme Court. Florian has agreed to give us some of his time in order to answer your questions. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.
I really can't think of anything I would want to ask Florian Muller. Except maybe how much Microsoft and Oracle pay him to shill?
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Holy crap, I can hardly believe this topic. Who in their right mind would want FM opinion on anything? This is really puzzling to me.
"better ways of doing things eventually just replace the inferior things" - Linus Torvalds 09-08-07
Is there anyone out there who you think would be even less well received by the slashdot audience than you? If so, who?
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Being a complete shill for positions and companies that hurt the software world, how do you live with yourself? And why haven't you just jumped off a bridge yet?
And Slashdot, WTF are you doing giving the time of day to this tool?
Whoops, I guess that's three questions.
Is this April 1st already? No? Then why is this cruel joke being played on the Slashdot community?
Most of us remember who and what Florian Mueller is. And there is nothing we can learn about him or from him, in an interview, that we don't already know.
Slashdot, obviously, has to innovate in order to stay current. Thus, they are now taking the next step after "Anonymous Cowards". The new "Identified Troll" feature will include interviews of people who have prostituted their personal credibility to some company's calculated disinformation campaign.
Bruce Perens.
Yes, this is definitely a "WTF?" moment in the history of Slashdot. I suggest that you all just move on to the next story and refuse to feed the troll by asking him questions.
Bruce Perens.
As an independent software developer, how can I avoid getting dragged into a patent lawsuit? How can I leverage my rights to ensure others aren't exploiting my patents?
You can't.
A patent is just a license to sue.
It licenses others to sue you if they think you might be infringing their stuff (or they can get you to pay them to go away even if you aren't). It licenses you to sue others who are infringing your patents. That's all it is.
If you want protection for your creations, you have to be ready to put on the armor and walk into the arena to defend them.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
You were a valuable unbiased source of information on software patents and patent litigation.
In a parallel universe, perhaps.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Doesn't change the fact that you for years let people believe you were a patent lawyer when you were never a lawyer, and even encouraged such misperceptions.
Doesn't change the fact that you shilled for years, pushing all sorts of bogus "patent claims by microsoft that threaten linux" when they never existed.
Doesn't change the fact that you simply are not perceived as being even half-way honest by those who have been around the block a few times - with reason.
We've had this discussion before. You were caught misrepresenting yourself and your history too many times. And now you must be getting desperate, delusional, or both, because for some reason you believe that doing a Q and A on slashdot won't once more expose your BS to the light. Wow. You're google-bombing yourself. Again. Payback is a b*tch.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.