[huggyface]

To get a balance you need to read both (well actually even more sources).

Or neither. However if you had to mix one of them in your daily feed mix, Groklaw actually seems to be based in the here and now, while FOSS Patents is just generally horseshit (we could go through the history of both that would quite amply prove this out. FOSS Patents is the worst sort of garbage the net produces)

[Steko]

"FOSS Patents is just generally horseshit"

If you stay away from his cheerleading there's a lot of good analysis and useful information.

I read both Groklaw and FOSS if not daily every other day and I wouldn't say one is significantly less biased or useful then the other. As I've said recently[1] I wish there were a good daily source that isn't overrun with bias but I haven't seen one yet.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3866508

[parfe]

"Angry Birds game and the Adobe Flash Player -- would actually have to be published under the GPL."

http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/03/googles-android-faces-ser...

How'd that story turn out for you? Still read the guy's complete horseshit?

He's literally paid by Oracle which he disingenuously hid while commenting on the Oracle v Google case up until a last week. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120419070127103

That's ok, "both" sides of a story are important, right? Even when one is from someone who is a habitual disingenuous exaggerator.

[Steko]

I'm impressed you only had to go back 13 months to find a bad quote? If it's all horseshit use the latest column as evidence.

And don't pretend Groklaw's never been wrong in their cheerleading either. They've been expecting the judge to issue summary judgment and tar and feather Oracle's council for the last year.

"He's literally paid by Oracle"

If you'd clicked on my link above you'd see I pointed this out last week.

"That's ok, "both" sides of a story are important, right? "

Quit arguing with straw men. Like I said, I'd prefer an unbiased source.

[parfe]

>I'm impressed you only had to go back 13 months to find a bad quote? If it's all horseshit use the latest column as evidence.

Very well.

How about if Mueller references his own 13 month old horseshit this very day? http://www.fosspatents.com/2012/04/former-sun-chief-about-go... as though it is still a valid theory?

Does it count as an up to date impeachment of your favorite bullshit peddler? Especially because he knows nothing came of his the-sky-is-falling claims regarding the Linux, GPL and Android? And that Linus himself said the claims were crap?

His current article also references another year old prediction he made which turned out to come to nothing as well

http://www.fosspatents.com/2011/03/more-evidence-of-googles-...

It's almost like he spews forth shitty predictions with a specific agenda in mind and doesn't care when his bullshit doesn't pan out because he makes good money by running his mouth.

Then there's this snipe at Jonathan Schwartz: "In yesterday's testimony, Jonathan Schwartz tried to do as much damage to Oracle's case as he could."

that or Schwartz told the truth which just happens to not be in Mueller's employer's favor.

[parfe]

Just the last one I remember.

It's not a straw man. The guy you so plainly think is a legit source for information is literally paid by one of the litigants. May as well be recommending people read Oracle's press releases for some good information.

[othermaciej]

I'd actually love to see an evaluation of predictions made by both sources and how they turned out. Or even just some examples of comparative predictions on particular points.