Comments on: Litigation update: Sun 1, NetApp 0

By: Hollye Merton

Hollye Merton — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:58:22 +0000

Litigation in this manner never results favorably for either side. They both need to sit down at the table and hash it out.

By: Bill Todd

Bill Todd — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:46:33 +0000

Indeed: my apologies for having responded appropriately to what you said, rather than to what you now say you meant.

By: Beth Pariseau

Beth Pariseau — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:39:17 +0000

well, a less than ideal choice of words is a far cry from being “taken in by Sun propaganda”, so let’s call us even.

By: Bill Todd

Bill Todd — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:14:50 +0000

I’m afraid that your statement “NetApp started all this” seems considerably more general than your explanation above suggests: if your intent was as limited as you claim, then your choice of phrasing was unfortunate.

And the letter sent by Sun to NetApp demanding $36.5 million well before the beginning of any court action is, as far as I’ve seen, under no dispute whatsoever.

By: Beth Pariseau

Beth Pariseau — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:41:36 +0000

netapp was the first to litigate. the post is about the litigation. hence, i began it with netapp’s suit.

you are correct that there were discussions that lead to that lawsuit, but as to the nature of those discussions, there are only a few people who really know what happened–and so far, publicly, the facts of those discussions are under dispute.

By: Bill Todd

Bill Todd — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:07:50 +0000

Horses#!t. Sun was the aggressor from Day 1, continuing the demands on NetApp that StorageTek had initiated before it was acquired by Sun – culminating in a specific demand for $36.5 million from NetApp to license StorageTek intellectual property (that NetApp denied it was infringing) well before NetApp responded with its suit.

Apparently you’ve been as easily taken in by Sun’s propaganda as so much of the rest of the world has been – but as a reporter you really ought to consider yourself a bit more responsible for actually investigating your statements before making them public.