[JohnTHaller]

A few points:

1. It's the author's personal blog.

2. The author didn't submit it here, they just put it up on their personal blog. They didn't pretend to be unbiased and then publish a story on a tech news site. They have no responsibility to you just because you found it via a news aggregation site.

3. The author could have easily done this on their own time without any employer involvement at all.

4. Just because the author works for Canonical does not necessarily mean they have any connection to the phone project.

5. The author's employer may have a policy against identifying as a part of the company on personal websites (but no similar policy for social media).

[slededit]

Funny we're often warned we must identify ourselves when publicly praising/reviewing our own products, lest we run foul of the FTC. They are UK based though so perhaps its different there.