Netapp vs. Sun - War Of The Blogs

First, Jonathan Schwartz, long time blogger and person not afraid to say seemingly loony things at any given moment (which I like, fyi) tossed out this one in response to the lawsuit.  The JS blog fans seem to like it.  I like the fact that he intentionally spells "Netapps" instead of Netapp (and do NOT try to make me believe it was a simple error - I learned such moves from Dick Egan et al in the day, masters of this game).  I don't buy any of his argument, but his fans clearly do.  Some compare Netapp to the evil EMC directly.  That ought to ruffle some feathers. 

Not to be out-blogged, Dave Hitz countered thusly with this.  This is a particularly excellent blog if for no other reason than Dave made up a word - Litigoperation.  I'm always looking for a new word.  (My son was very bummed to find out Ginormous was made and official word, so he went on to create "togus" for totally bogus - he seems quite pleased with it thus far).

JS says Netapp never did something, Dave pops up an email that seems to prove that false, and off we go.  Dave does get the best line of the match in with "For me, one of the most important rules of open source is that you give away things that belong to you."  That's just stellar.

Question:  is the stuff going on in public domain like this admissible as part of the proceedings?  In which case, would you not want to make sure you were accurate in your statements?  Just wondering.  Any lawyers out there??????

Finally, why is it that west coast law suits always remind me of 7th grade girl fights?  No offense, of course.  I got my arse kicked by a 7th grade girl.......

Comments

[Travis Rogers]

is that 7th grade girl now a lawyer, as an adult?

That would certainly validate your girl-fight metaphor theory.