In my "Inbox" I have over 100 messages from Microsoft Florian. Not all of them are personal. Florian is shy to admit this, but his operation is based on reuse of text for blog comments (he shut down comments in his own blogs after he had found them irritating) and also for E-mails, which he uses to embed his name and his often incorrect claims inside news articles. Maybe he pondered sending it to one zillion reporters, hoping that one in a zillion will give it room in a post/article. Maybe that's how the lobbying industry works, who knows? I sure don't. But what I do know what I was sent and I received admissions too. Here is an example of a message:
From: Florian Mueller To: "Roy Schestowitz" Subject: Bilski decision doesn't invalidate even one software patent Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:53:58 +0200
(sad story... and this here is an example of my emails to journalists when news break)
Please feel free to use in your reporting on the Bilski decision any of these comments. I'm the author of the FOSS Patents blog (and founder and former director of the NoSoftwarePatents campaign) on the Bilski decision and what it means for the patentability of software.
Here are a few select quotes, and further below the URL of my posting and the complete text.
"Unfortunately, the Supreme Court delivered an opinion that doesn't help the cause of partial or complete abolition of software patents at all."
"[T]he court's majority position is about the most liberal reasoning that it could have been. Only a decision to uphold the Bilski patent could have been any less restrictive.
"Simply put, the Supreme Court's decision does not do away with even one software patent that already exists, nor does it raise the bar for the future."
"The decision announced today makes it clear that a majority of the Supreme Court wanted to give the abolition of even only a small percentage of all software patents the widest berth possible."
"This US decision is even more disappointing when taking into account the global trend." [then mentions political process in New Zealand and court decision in Germany]
"The position that software patents should be abolished isn't nearly as popular among judges and politicians as it is in the free and open source software community."
The upcoming Defensive Patent License (DPL) is recommended at the end of the blog posting.
Here's the URL and the full text:
From: Florian Mueller To: "Roy Schestowitz" Subject: EU launches investigation against IBM over mainframe practices Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:33:54 +0200
(this goes to multiple recipients but I didn't want to use an undisclosed list because of potential problems with spam filters; nor do I use a mailer tool ;-)
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2011-04-17 02:26:24
No mention of Intellectual Ventures No mention of Nathan Myhrvold He mentions Microsoft's Patent Lawyer 4 times, mostly to lead people to read Microsoft's opinion.
I once asked him to read my Microsoft Software Patent Extortion Timeline, and asked him why hed did not persue Microsoft and their obvious attacks on gnu/linux and software freedom. He was silent at the time. I now see he produced this lame excuse of "Microsoft's cooperative approach to patents." In his defense of Microsoft, he dismisses accusations that he's a Microsoft lobbiest that can't be trusted. Then, he tells us,
This is a disgraceful defense of Microsoft's strategy against free software. According to Microsoft email exposed in the Comes vrs Microsoft anti-trust case, it is clear that Microsoft's goal was to impose external costs, "risks" and fear on gnu/linux users and companies. The attack was planned in 2002, executed in 2004 and continues to this day. Microsoft brags that they have netted dozens if not hundreds of license payers, companies that use software that Microsoft does not own. Florian describes this judicial extortion as "cooperative," "fair," "reasonable" and "non discriminatory." I wonder if he wold feel the same way if I were to tell him that I have a patent on FUD, but I don't want him to stop writing FUD, I just want my fair share of his compensation, 25% should do, otherwise I'll tie him up in court for the next decade, embargo his writing in the US and EU and set a host of spinners to work on his reputation through my extensive network of technical publications, PR firms, lawyers and lobbiests. As soon as he bothers to pay, I'll set half a dozen proxies after him. When that is someone else's reality, he's OK with it.
His recent work has also cost him a lot of his reputation. People noticed he was the source of Android copyright FUD and thought poorly of it. The attacks on "Groklie," PJ, will probably cost him more. In typical Microsoft bully fashion, he's blaming the hit to his reputation on PJ and others who notice what he's doing.