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The other thing is that in Germany if you enforce an injunction and it's later overturned, you're liable for damages. So the question might be how confident ar

The other thing is that in Germany if you enforce an injunction and it's later overturned, you're liable for damages. So the question might be how confident are Motorola that they might want to line them up for damages equating to iPhone / iPad Christmas sales? As ever Florian Mueller is better on this than most of the regular news sources. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/12/motorola-mobility-wins-german-patent.html http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/12/motorola-mobility-wi...

bad_user 15y ago
Seriously, I would take Florian Mueller's opinions with a grain of salt.
- barredo 15y ago
  curiosity: why is that?
  - metachris 15y ago
    He is known to be opinionated.
    - deleted 15y ago
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  - tobiasu 15y ago
    He's a patent lobbyist. Who exactly finances his operation is in part unclear (he seems to work for Microsoft on one project). He does not want to disclose his income sources. Some people feel that he's highly biased against Google etc. FM is generally well informed, but may have a hidden agenda, you have to be awake when reading his opinions... My main beef with his persona is that many news reporters call him an "expert" and publish his opinion as if were facts set in stone.
  - bad_user 15y ago
    I've read many of his pieces and I am 100% sure that he's a shill.
    - barredo 15y ago
      That didn't solve my curiosity.
  - burgerbrain 15y ago
    Check out his antics on LWN sometime. He is biased out the ass (at times outright being a lobbyist) and quite unpleasant to boot. Many of his "tactics" reek of bullying, such as insisting that people who he disagrees with reveal their personal details. See this discussion for one relatively tame example of why people intensely dislike the guy: http://lwn.net/Articles/437650/ http://lwn.net/Articles/437650/ For extra fun, in this discussion he seems to be entertaining himself by attacking PJ's gender.
goatforce5 15y ago
> So the question might be how confident are Motorola that they might want to line them up for damages equating to iPhone / iPad Christmas sales? And, if anything, i'd expect Apple Germany's Christmas sales to go up. Better get your iDevice now before they're forced to withdraw it from market! (Or, erm, just buy it from a legit source in a neighbouring country.)

bad_user 15y ago

Seriously, I would take Florian Mueller's opinions with a grain of salt.

barredo 15y ago
curiosity: why is that?
- metachris 15y ago
  He is known to be opinionated.
  - deleted 15y ago
    [deleted]
- tobiasu 15y ago
  He's a patent lobbyist. Who exactly finances his operation is in part unclear (he seems to work for Microsoft on one project). He does not want to disclose his income sources. Some people feel that he's highly biased against Google etc. FM is generally well informed, but may have a hidden agenda, you have to be awake when reading his opinions... My main beef with his persona is that many news reporters call him an "expert" and publish his opinion as if were facts set in stone.
- bad_user 15y ago
  I've read many of his pieces and I am 100% sure that he's a shill.
  - barredo 15y ago
    That didn't solve my curiosity.
- burgerbrain 15y ago
  Check out his antics on LWN sometime. He is biased out the ass (at times outright being a lobbyist) and quite unpleasant to boot. Many of his "tactics" reek of bullying, such as insisting that people who he disagrees with reveal their personal details. See this discussion for one relatively tame example of why people intensely dislike the guy: http://lwn.net/Articles/437650/ http://lwn.net/Articles/437650/ For extra fun, in this discussion he seems to be entertaining himself by attacking PJ's gender.

goatforce5 15y ago

> So the question might be how confident are Motorola that they might want to line them up for damages equating to iPhone / iPad Christmas sales? And, if anything, i'd expect Apple Germany's Christmas sales to go up. Better get your iDevice now before they're forced to withdraw it from market! (Or, erm, just buy it from a legit source in a neighbouring country.)