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Oh, PJ... you optimist | 438 comments | Create New Account
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Oh, PJ... you optimist
Authored by: mcinsand on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 01:28 PM EDT
>>Well, the upside is no one will ever again
>>describe him in an article as a FOSS person.

I think it'll be 10 days, 14 at the outside. FM is paid to say what certain
parties need to appear in the media, no matter how ridiculous. It would be nice
if you were right, but I just don't see all of the mainstream journalists wising
up that quickly.

Regards,
mc

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But notice what he isn't commenting on...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 02:15 PM EDT
Too late he still has creds with the likes of
theregister.co.uk in that they are still quoting him as an
expert of FLOSS and patents

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Relation?
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 02:58 PM EDT
I could not help, but wonder if you and Florian are well known to each other?
Perhaps an old couple? The way you like each other, you know.

He calls you groklie and make joke about avoiding the public he is so keen of.
And you gave your sweethard a charming swing,
ProprietaryPatentsAttackingFOSSblog

BTW About de-compilation. I thought Oracle made it. And how could the pros from
Google be so stupid. Stupid. And I got a glimpse. De-compiling isn't fun. Why
would they have done it? They could have done better, cheating. They could have
copied the open (available) source, altered it accordingly. You see. Even an
idiot wouldn't have de-compiled the bytecode / binaries because there is the
source available. Further more, as I unterstand it: Those are the API
descriptions, not even the real code.

So: What is is about? I don't get it?

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But notice what he isn't commenting on...
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 05:56 PM EDT
Sorry, I just don't quite understand your position. Java
(actually the OpenJDK) is open-source. Android is a different
implementation under a different OSS license, which has
actually fragmented Java. If Google had wanted to, they could
have built Android on top of the open-source OpenJDK. But they
didn't, because they didn't like the OSS GPL license. So if
you want to look at it from an OSS perspective, what you
really have here is a battle between two open-source licenses:
GPL and Apache.

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Lets help Florian re brand
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 06:24 PM EDT
Hey PJ lets help him re brand himself.

we just register a new domain for him:

www.ProprietaryPatentsAttackingFOSSblog.com

and then point it at a server with a redirect to his site.

This way if we ever need to add a link to his blog we have a nice address we can
use :D

Michael

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But notice what he isn't commenting on...
Authored by: clemenstimpler on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 06:26 PM EDT
Things really must look bleak for some, if they come trolling here. Thanks for
letting this through - it adds to the general impression. :)

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But notice what he isn't commenting on...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 08:28 AM EDT
Florian is only pro FOSS when it's BSD licensed... because that's the license
his masters like because they can keep taking and don't have to share any
improvements back with the pool...

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New Blog Name
Authored by: darrellb on Friday, April 27 2012 @ 12:43 PM EDT
FOSSFUD

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