Note: according to an article at http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21172515/obrien-microsoft-and-google-battle-influence-policy-shadows http://www.mercuryn

Note: according to an article at http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21172515/obrien-microsoft-and-google-battle-influence-policy-shadows http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_21172515/obrien-micro... published today in the San Jose Mercury News, Scott Cleland "gained funding -- to a degree that he won't disclose -- from Google's competitors, including Microsoft." If you read Cleland's writing, he's pretty consistently anti-Google, to an even greater degree than Florian Mueller for example (who also receives funding from Microsoft, as well as from Oracle).