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"I haven't done any work for Oracle in quite a while," AFAIK, he now gets paid by someone oracle pays (and strongly supports oracle), and before that he was ge

"I haven't done any work for Oracle in quite a while," AFAIK, he now gets paid by someone oracle pays (and strongly supports oracle), and before that he was getting paid by someone who strongly supports oracle and so didn't need oracle's money. So this is technically accurate but still not what most people would consider being honest. "This lawsuit was filed not long after I had been fighting against Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems on the antitrust front." This i know to be practically false from personal knowledge, having been involved in the review. I'm sure, like the previous statement, there is some crazy view in which it is technically correct but not, again, what most people would consider being honest.

Twisell 10y ago
Clearly he consistently sided with Orcale thought all this case. And I think it's totally ok to consider that he's not independent and very subjective. But by following he's blog since a few years I often found very interesting insights about the trial. And i think it's important sometimes to be open to counterpoints. While he can be very irritating when he touts out loud that he was right against every other analyst... We should conceded that he was remarkably good at predicting the outcome of the appeal. And while i don't agree on him on every points I'm pretty sure that the ruling about copyrightability of API is a very good one and might one day prove beneficial to the FOSS community. People often tends to mix up concept like Free/OpenSource Software and don't really get why licensing published code (even under WTFPL) is very important to keep projects rolling. I give to Mueller that he's probably better than many to understand complexity's of theses matters. On the other side the linked article of this thread is a giant misinformation as it use the most dumb and old argument Oracle used in this trial even thought it already have been ruled out years ago. EDIT: On a side note, I personally use PostgreSQL daily and wont recommend OracleDB to anyone as of nowadays.
- DannyBee 10y ago
  "hile he can be very irritating when he touts out loud that he was right against every other analyst... We should conceded that he was remarkably good at predicting the outcome of the appeal." I'm not sure what analysts you are talking about. Since the appeal was to the federal circuit, pretty much everyone i'm aware of thought google would lose hard. "And while i don't agree on him on every points I'm pretty sure that the ruling about copyrightability of API is a very good one and might one day prove beneficial to the FOSS community. " We are going to really strongly disagree on that. "I give to Mueller that he's probably better than many to understand complexity's of theses matters." I also see no evidence this is correct either. He pretty much has no insight into the way people work in any real basis, only what he thinks he can sell to people. He has literally no real software experience, he was a writer :)

Twisell 10y ago

Clearly he consistently sided with Orcale thought all this case. And I think it's totally ok to consider that he's not independent and very subjective. But by following he's blog since a few years I often found very interesting insights about the trial. And i think it's important sometimes to be open to counterpoints. While he can be very irritating when he touts out loud that he was right against every other analyst... We should conceded that he was remarkably good at predicting the outcome of the appeal. And while i don't agree on him on every points I'm pretty sure that the ruling about copyrightability of API is a very good one and might one day prove beneficial to the FOSS community. People often tends to mix up concept like Free/OpenSource Software and don't really get why licensing published code (even under WTFPL) is very important to keep projects rolling. I give to Mueller that he's probably better than many to understand complexity's of theses matters. On the other side the linked article of this thread is a giant misinformation as it use the most dumb and old argument Oracle used in this trial even thought it already have been ruled out years ago. EDIT: On a side note, I personally use PostgreSQL daily and wont recommend OracleDB to anyone as of nowadays.

DannyBee 10y ago
"hile he can be very irritating when he touts out loud that he was right against every other analyst... We should conceded that he was remarkably good at predicting the outcome of the appeal." I'm not sure what analysts you are talking about. Since the appeal was to the federal circuit, pretty much everyone i'm aware of thought google would lose hard. "And while i don't agree on him on every points I'm pretty sure that the ruling about copyrightability of API is a very good one and might one day prove beneficial to the FOSS community. " We are going to really strongly disagree on that. "I give to Mueller that he's probably better than many to understand complexity's of theses matters." I also see no evidence this is correct either. He pretty much has no insight into the way people work in any real basis, only what he thinks he can sell to people. He has literally no real software experience, he was a writer :)