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Ah, Florian Mueller, a paid Oracle shill.
by simplifier 11y ago
Ah, Florian Mueller, a paid Oracle shill.
- mikecmpbll 11y agoI don't care how involved he is in the case, I read his writing and I found it to be illuminating -- far more so than anything else I'd read on the subject. You can happily take the opposing view simply because he is involved and is probably biased, but that will make your viewpoint almost entirely baseless.
- dragonwriter 11y agoMueller has a history of doing an excellent job working things that aren't actually reasonable to informed parties that seem illuminating to people that aren't informed. It's actually a fairly key skill for a professional propagandist. I haven't actually read the piece on question here, but appearing illuminating and actually being deceptive propaganda are not mutually exclusive traits.
- mikecmpbll 11y agoif that's the case, it's the job of the 'informed' guys to write similarly illuminating counter-arguments, because I've not found any yet.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThe illusion of illumination is greatly enhanced by having a strong guiding narrative, which is easy with propaganda, harder with reality.
- mikecmpbll 11y agoYou cannot cry propaganda without providing some evidence as to what is misleading or factually incorrect, because otherwise anyone can say anything is propaganda.
- simplifier 11y agoTechdirt's take: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama-administration-files-totally-clueless-argument-concerning-software-copyrights-supreme-court-case.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150526/16550931121/obama...