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Authored by: feldegast on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 09:55 AM EDT |
that's why "self-described" was used
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Authored by: mcinsand on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 10:13 AM EDT |
Flo's expertise isn't on patent law, but the ability to take money to say up is
down and north is west, and doing it with a straight face. When anyone takes
him as having anything worth saying, well, that is a worthwhile statement about
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 10:19 AM EDT |
Sadly, the BBC and NPR rely heavily on Florian as their patent expert.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 10:33 AM EDT |
I think the term "tool" is best to describe Florian. He's a
"Tool" of the Oracle PR machine (ah - you all thought I was somehow
being rude didn't you! ) He goes on and on today trying to cover up his bravado
about how Oracle never promised to really take 720 out with stuff about how
Google WILL have to deal with it eventually. Oddly - he may be right. I would
imagine that Oracle could go after individual phone companies using Android with
it. In any case - Judge Alsup through it right back in Oracle's face
immediately. Good for him! I also LOVE the latest legal technicalities that
Oracle fines itself in concerning actual registration of the Copyright.
Is it just me or is is it becoming obvious that Boies is a LOUSY lawyer. He
lost Bush V Gore, SCO v Novell, and now looks like Oracle V Google... granted
counting chickens before hatched on that last one... but he sure is being out
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Authored by: hardmath on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 10:43 AM EDT |
To me at least, his reputation is for never being
right in any of his predictions of the immediate future.
To be fair, he is sometimes right in his predictions of the
immediate past.
That reputation which allows him to get quoted so frequently
in the press is of a different nature. He is credited with
starting a blog, FOSS Patents, and organizing the
NoSoftwarePatents campaign to defeat a proposed directive on
"patentability of computer-related inventions" in the
European Parliament (2005).
Since then he's become something of a pitchman for corporate
IP of all kinds, predominantly antagonistic to open source
causes.
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- ROFL - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 12:32 PM EDT
- Indeed! - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 07:02 PM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 10:45 AM EDT |
Y'know, Florian is a pretty obvious shill.
However, he does show significant expertise in opinion-
shaping.
I suspect that he did one thing far more effectively than
Groklaw... (Don't kill me...please.) He got a large number
of newspapers and blogs to follow him (11.3k followers) - so
they are getting his 'expert' opinions streamed directly in
real-time. Given the level of funding and expertise
available for real investigative journalism nowadays...his
BS tends to get reported as real news.
I wonder how hard it would be to change Groklaw's format
enough to allow easy digestion and distribution to fairly
lazy journalists. It would help to have something reality-
based with a larger distribution radius.
That said - I do suspect some bias against Google. Thing is
- Google scares most current incumbents because they're
making a lot of money, have a very well-protected business
model, and are more interested in transformative change than
modestly increased profits. Frankly, they've built a
marginally profitable defensive moat of free software that
has probably destroyed 10s to 100s of B of dollars of
shareholder value in other companies.
(eg...GPS...gmail...google apps) Given enough time...they'll
almost certainly give away software for every major market
at close to the cost of creation. That means that M$,
Oracle, and, to a lesser extent, Apple are all running
scared.
It is easy to claim that all companies are the same. Easy -
and wrong. They do tend to end up fairly similar after a
while - but corporate culture tends to be shaped by the
personalities of the founders and is very, very resilient.
So far, Google has, where possible, arguably chosen to avoid
being evil. M$ and Oracle can not credibly make that claim.
There is a real difference.
--Erwin
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Authored by: lnuss on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 06:25 PM EDT |
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