This is some impressive astroturfing right here.
You even got in a link to a guy paid by oracle to comment on the case!
Quoting Mueller
Please bear with me while I'm repeating the following: I haven't done any work for Oracle in quite a while, I have no reason to assume today that I'll ever do any again (I'll release two game apps this year and that's my professional future), and I have taken consistent positions ever since the case started. This lawsuit was filed not long after I had been fighting against Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems on the antitrust front. Despite having embroiled in a bitter fight with Oracle, I realized early on that Oracle had a point here (though I usually like Google a lot, especially Android). I still hold those views even though working with Oracle on standard-essential patent matters is a thing of the past for me.
An opinionated, independent view is not "propaganda" by any stretch of the imagination. This blog got copyrightability right when Judge Alsup got it wrong, and three higher judges than Judge Alsup totally agreed with me (and the top U.S. court didn't elect to hear the case in order to disagree). The truth is on my side, not his. And when all is said and done, people will see that this blog also got "fair use" right to a greater extent than he did/does.
That remains to be seen. The blog got copyrightability the same way the Federal Circuit decided that the Ninth Circuit would have ruled [0], and the Supreme Court declined to review that interlocutory appeal. But the final judgement is bound to also be appealed, and its much more likely that the Supreme Court will take the case after final judgement -- at which point we'll know who got copyrightability right [1], since either Google will be appealing a judgement against it on Fair Use where copyrightability will be a necessary issue to resolve or Oracle will be appealing on Fair Use and Google will be cross-appealing on copyrightability.
An appeal being interlocutory is a factor agains the Supreme Court taking it, and quite likely a significant factor in why the Supreme Court didn't hear Oracle v. Google.
For Mueller to claim he got copyrightability "right" because the Federal Circuit agreed with him is premature.
[0] on issues that aren't the ones that force an issue into the Federal Circuit (particularly patent), the Federal Circuit is supposed to apply the law of the Circuit which otherwise would have heard the case.
[1] at least, to the limit of "right" within the US legal system.
AFAIK, he now gets paid by someone oracle pays (and strongly supports oracle), and before that he was getting paid by someone who strongly supports oracle and so didn't need oracle's money. So this is technically accurate but still not what most people would consider being honest.
"This lawsuit was filed not long after I had been fighting against Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems on the antitrust front."
This i know to be practically false from personal knowledge, having been involved in the review.
I'm sure, like the previous statement, there is some crazy view in which it is technically correct but not, again, what most people would consider being honest.
But by following he's blog since a few years I often found very interesting insights about the trial. And i think it's important sometimes to be open to counterpoints.
While he can be very irritating when he touts out loud that he was right against every other analyst... We should conceded that he was remarkably good at predicting the outcome of the appeal.
And while i don't agree on him on every points I'm pretty sure that the ruling about copyrightability of API is a very good one and might one day prove beneficial to the FOSS community.
People often tends to mix up concept like Free/OpenSource Software and don't really get why licensing published code (even under WTFPL) is very important to keep projects rolling. I give to Mueller that he's probably better than many to understand complexity's of theses matters.
On the other side the linked article of this thread is a giant misinformation as it use the most dumb and old argument Oracle used in this trial even thought it already have been ruled out years ago.
EDIT: On a side note, I personally use PostgreSQL daily and wont recommend OracleDB to anyone as of nowadays.
I'm not sure what analysts you are talking about. Since the appeal was to the federal circuit, pretty much everyone i'm aware of thought google would lose hard.
"And while i don't agree on him on every points I'm pretty sure that the ruling about copyrightability of API is a very good one and might one day prove beneficial to the FOSS community. "
We are going to really strongly disagree on that.
"I give to Mueller that he's probably better than many to understand complexity's of theses matters."
I also see no evidence this is correct either. He pretty much has no insight into the way people work in any real basis, only what he thinks he can sell to people.
He has literally no real software experience, he was a writer :)