Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Aug 2012 21:42 UTC
"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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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.
Member since:2007-11-11
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.
Member since:2007-03-06
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.
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2011-10-12
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.