Can we just agree to always link to the FOSS Patents blog for all these stories in the future? Florian Mueller is always the very first one to report on these and does a much better job at analysis. Here on HN, we should actively replace upvoted articles with the primary source when it is clearly the better source of information.
I actually agree on the point about linking to primary sources, but having said that Florian Mueller is a proven shill and his analysis should never be trusted at face value by anyone, particularly when he's analyzing anything to do with Google.
I never claimed he was unbiased just like no one would claim that Gruber is unbiased. But having posts from source like CNET that just water down the original source make it to the front page adds absolutely nothing of value.
Imagine if every John Gruber article worthy of making it to the front-page only ever made it to the front page after being laundered by a site like CNET? I think everyone can agree that we would be worse off without the original voices.
One of the biggest losses of not having original voices, even from the most biased of biased bloggers, is that it also dilutes the counter-arguments of those on HN that provide the balance to biased articles. For example, a direct link to Florian Meuller's article may elicit a response from a contributor like yourself where you point out where Florian's analysis may be wrong and shouldn't be trusted. Without Florian's post to rebut, it's more likely that people like yourself would remain silent on the issue.
I also chuckled, but he has a point: we shouldn't let CNet "launder" Mueller's analysis onto HN. Also, it's frustrating to me that I haven't seen any coverage of this issue that's both detailed and "unbiased".
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4745820