Florian Müller (Author)
Florian Müller (born January 21, 1970 in Haunstetten ) is a blogger , lobbyist , entrepreneur , management consultant and founder of the European political campaign NoSoftwarePatents.com .
Life
In 1985 Müller began to write articles for computer magazines (mainly 64'er ). In the following year he published his first book From the C64 to the C128 - Tips & Tricks in the publishing house Markt & Technik .
From 1987 to 1998 he specialized in licensing cooperations between software manufacturers from the USA and Europe. He founded and took care of cooperations in the segments of application software, utility software, learning software (working for Ernst Klett Verlag , among others ) and game software. He was involved in localization and marketing of the Blizzard games WarCraft II , Diablo I and StarCraft I , among others .
In 1996 he and his colleagues founded the online game service Rival Network, which he sold to a Telefónica Group company in early 2000 . From 2001 to 2004 he advised the CEO and the further management of MySQL AB , the manufacturer of the open source database software of the same name.
In 2004, Müller started the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign with the support of sponsors 1 & 1 , Red Hat and MySQL , which opposed a planned EU directive on computer-implemented inventions (so-called software patents ). After several years of intensive lobbying by various organizations, the directive was rejected on July 6, 2005 by the European Parliament with 648 of 680 votes cast.
In 2005 he received several awards for his political work. An English trade journal for intellectual property , "Managing Intellectual Property", listed Müller among the "top 50 most influential people in intellectual property" of the year. The Silicon.com website placed him 43rd among the Silicon Agenda Setters. The Brussels weekly European Voice, which specializes in EU issues, counts Müller among the “EV50 Europeans of the Year 2005”. Together with the FFII , Müller received the CNET Networks UK Technology Award in the "Outstanding Contribution to Software Development" category.
In November 2005 he was awarded a prize in the sub-category “Campaign Leader of the Year” as part of the “European of the Year” award. There was then confusion as to whether or not he had accepted the award. However, the organizing newspaper European Voice continues to list him as an award winner, and Müller later stated that he had accepted the award “in protest (against the alleged election result for the main European of the year award )”.
In spring 2007, Der Spiegel reported that Florian Müller was lobbying for the Spanish soccer club Real Madrid . In an interview, he accused FC Bayern Munich of “quasi-communist demands” on the question of marketing television broadcasting rights for football matches, because he wanted to extend the central marketing of these rights, which is common in Germany, to Spain and Italy with EU help.
2009 Florian Mueller committed against the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle . Sun had previously bought the open source database MySQL . According to Müller and other critics, the open source database market was at risk. In doing so, Müller stands at the side of MySQL founder Michael Widenius , who also warned against the takeover.
He later worked as a consultant for companies such as Oracle and Microsoft.
Books
- From the C 64 to the C 128 . Markt + Technik, Munich 1987. ISBN 3-89090-402-5
- C 64, all about GEOS . Markt + Technik, Munich 1987. ISBN 3-89090-461-0
- C 64 - GEOS 1.3 (German) . Markt + Technik, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-89090-570-6
- C 64 for insiders . Markt + Technik, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-89090-481-5
- C 64 . Markt + Technik, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-89090-499-8
- Everything about the C 128 . Markt + Technik, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-89090-613-3
- C 128 . Markt + Technik, Munich 1988. ISBN 3-89090-700-8
- C 64, C 128 - everything about GEOS 2.0 . Markt + Technik, Munich 1989. ISBN 3-89090-808-X
Web links
- Florian Müller: The lobby battle for software patents (2006). Free electronic book on the resistance to the EU draft directive on software patents ( heise.de review )
- NoSoftwarePatents campaign
- Florian Müller's FOSS Patents Blog (English)
- Florian Mueller's FOSS patent Twitter page (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ C64-Wiki page on Florian Müller's authoring work
- ↑ BuchJournal, edition 1/1988, p. 91, Scribd-Document (title page and p. 91)
- ↑ Mobygames credits for Warcraft II - Tides of Darkness (English)
- ↑ Mobygames credits for Diablo I
- ↑ Mobygames credits for Starcraft I
- ↑ FOCUS article online games without borders (issue 28/1997)
- ^ Official website of MySQL ( Memento of February 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Heise.de article : Information campaign against 'harmful software patents' started
- ↑ MacWorld article : Torvalds comes out against EU patent directive (English)
- ↑ Heise.de article : EU parliament buries software patent directive
- ↑ ManagingIP article : Revealed: 2005's most influential people (English)
- ↑ Silicon.com ( Memento of September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ): Agenda Setters 2005 ("Politicos" category) (English)
- ↑ ZDNet article : Software patents campaigners honored (English)
- ↑ EV awards ( memento from December 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) winners in 2005 (English)
- ↑ "Patrons and Money Launders" Der Spiegel, 2007, No. 21, p. 116
- ↑ EU Commission has concerns about the takeover of Sun by Oracle , Heise online of November 10, 2009
- ↑ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120817151150419
- ↑ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57440902-94/microsoft-legal-win-over-google-may-signal-ceasefire/?tag=mncol;morePosts
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Müller, Florian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author, entrepreneur, management consultant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Haunstetten |