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Mueller: Apple's iterative approach to FRAND abuse is not for the faint of heart

Mueller: Apple's iterative approach to FRAND abuse is not for the faint of heart

Posted Feb 8, 2012 6:32 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
In reply to: Mueller: Apple's iterative approach to FRAND abuse is not for the faint of heart by danielpf
Parent article: Mueller: Apple's iterative approach to FRAND abuse is not for the faint of heart

The thing that bothers me about Florian Mueller is not that he's biased-- we all are, after all. It's just that he won't be honest about who is paying him and why. Unfortunately, there's a real dearth of actual lawyers willing to talk about issues like this.


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Mueller: Apple's iterative approach to FRAND abuse is not for the faint of heart

Posted Feb 10, 2012 11:35 UTC (Fri) by jtc (subscriber, #6246) [Link]

"It's just that he won't be honest about who is paying him and why"...

Well, we perhaps can't tell if this was accidental or not, but the BBC, at:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/technology-16960676

says:

"Florian Mueller, author of the Foss Patents blog who does consultancy work for Microsoft, wrote that " ...

Either Mueller admitted this to the BBC, or they found this out from a reliable source, or their source is unreliable and might be wrong. Their reputation suggests (to me, at least) that either of the 1st or 2nd possibilities are a lot more likely than the 3rd.

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