03.04.11
Google and Microsoft Are Not Friends
Summary: Pro-Microsoft campaigners are trying to sell the illusion that Google is a buddy of Microsoft rather than a victim of Microsoft (which is being glorified as a saviour)
WHILE it may be true that Google hired some people from Microsoft (an HR problem), those two companies are far from friends. For starters, Microsoft constantly lobbies against Google and while Microsoft is suing Google’s Android/search from many different directions, Microsoft boosters like Microsoft Florian and Peter Bright spin something ‘new’ as Microsoft collaborating with Google on patents (far from it!). This is totally deceptive, but Florian pushed this spin into Slashdot himself and that’s where others point to. Did they not learn their lesson from his most recent lies? The spin is that Microsoft and Google are sitting on a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G, or — as one person put it in our IRC channels — that Microsoft is saving the world from “bad” trolls (Microsoft is one of the biggest patent bullies around, not just the company which lifts other companies’ inventions). So watch out for spin. Microsoft has been hiring a lot of people to lie recently (without disclosure). Microsoft Florian and Peter Bright have been attacking Free software quite a lot lately, too. █
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twitter said,
March 4, 2011 at 4:55 pm
Yeah, Florian has pushed himself into Slashdot a dozen times over the last six months, with a big five article spurt in December. These articles have billed him “Patent watcher and skeptic” and “former-NoSoftwarePatents-activist-turned-controversial-patent-blogger.” I like how PJ nailed him as neither a lawyer nor a developer but a lobbyist. It’s nice to see that Slashdot has some credibility left but bad to see it being exploited by the likes of Florian and his Microsoft palls who know how to stuff it.