[comex]

@FOSSpatents tweeted about this:

"The grant of this patent to Amazon renders me speechless. http://t.co/bMh7qwkh "Recurring Delivery of Products". prior art = milkman"

Usually he's rather supportive of most of the tech patents HN likes to deem "obvious", so if even he finds this astonishing, perhaps there really is something wrong here :)

[jlgreco]

Florian Müller finally admitted a few months ago that he is a paid shill.

[ketralnis]

Source? Relevance?

[jlgreco]

FOSSPatents == Florian

And sources: http://www.dailytech.com/Top+AntiAndroid+Blogger+Florian+Mue... http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57440902-94/microsoft-legal...

As fair as I am concerned, anything he says he is saying because he is being paid, wants to be paid to continue saying it, or wants to be paid to stop saying it. Well, that or because he is bored and hasn't harassed PJ recently; his obsession with Pamela Jones is rather unnerving.

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=Florian+dis...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428809

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2428141

[rayiner]

"Has done legal consulting work for Microsoft" == "paid shill"

I'd love to live on your planet and see what color the sky is...

[DannyBee]

So you don't believe the "legal consulting" was "posting legal analysis on his blog"?

I wonder what you think it is, since he has literally no legal background at all. He also finally admitted he was engaged by oracle to do roughly the same.

[jlgreco]

It strains credulity that Florian, with his history of evasion and poor attitude towards disclosure for years, is not a shill.

I'll concede though, he all but admitted that he is a paid shill.

[rednukleus]

I don't doubt that Florian is a shill, but those links you've posted don't prove anything.

[taligent]

> his obsession with Pamela Jones is rather unnerving

As someone who follows both it actually started with PJ and for a long while Florian never responded. And even the responses were far more professional than PJ's usually hyperbolic posts.

And being paid by a company does not make you a shill. Bias comes in many, many forms and the only way to cut through it is to provide facts.

[jlgreco]

Their professional interaction is not what I find unnerving, but rather Florian's insistence that she reveal herself personally, as well as the rest of his general interaction with her. It puts off seriously creepy vibes.

So maybe you are right. Maybe this isn't always about money to him, and is some other sort of obsession.

[tedunangst]

So it's ok for PJ to hide, but not for Florian? How did you draw that line?