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What's this a reference to? Or is it just about Florian Mueller being an attention whore?
by jarin 16y ago
What's this a reference to? Or is it just about Florian Mueller being an attention whore?
- bryanlarsen 16y agoThat's right. The original claim is from Naughton and Nimmer, but it's Mueller who's publicizing and spreading it widely.
- tzs 16y agoNope. Nimmer had nothing to do with the original claim. He was merely quoted giving some general (and correct) statements on the copyrightable of header files, and said that whether or not Google did anything wrong depends on exactly what they did, which he had not seen so could not say. For those not familiar with the legal world, Nimmer is approximately to copyright law what Knuth is to data structures.
- cdibona 16y agoIt's a different Nimmer. (David Nimmer is the real McCoy, Ray Nimmer is just some guy)
- metachris 16y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florian_M%C3%BCller Seems to be a pretty open-source minded guy. Interesting that he did this move.
- ekidd 16y agoFlorian Mueller has claimed (repeatedly) that Linux and Android have serious problems with patents and copyrights. In a recent thread on Linux Weekly News, he was asked to disclose any financial conflicts of interest, and he avoided answering the question: http://lwn.net/Articles/434587/ http://lwn.net/Articles/434587/ Personally, I would not repeat anything he says without careful fact-checking.