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This confirms that they had no contracts - Arrington's "exhibits" are some blog posts and emails. This guy seriously used to be a lawyer? The initial price point was just an attempt to hype it up by Arrington, so this whole device would never be much anyway. BTW, Techcrunch is deleting any unfavorable comments on their blog, just as they have done many other times previously.
I posted the following comment on the techcruch blog but it got deleted. Not sure why exactly, I think it's a fairly valid question to ask. "So you apparently found out that your business partner was pretty shady last summer but you chose to not reveal that obviously newsworthy information to readers, why exactly? Just wondering why readers should be considering techcruch a newsworthy source if such an obvious confli…
Seems pretty obvious. He had a partnership with Fusion Garage, why would he air their dirty laundry? It's not like he did anything to hide the relationship between FG and TC.
Doesn't sound like he did, actually.
This confirms that they had no contracts - Arrington's "exhibits" are some blog posts and emails. This guy seriously used to be a lawyer? The initial price point was just an attempt to hype it up by Arrington, so this whole device would never be much anyway. BTW, Techcrunch is deleting any unfavorable comments on their blog, just as they have done many other times previously.
This confirms that they had no contracts - Arrington's "exhibits" are some blog posts and emails. This guy seriously used to be a lawyer? The initial price point was just an attempt to hype it up by Arrington, so this whole device would never be much anyway. BTW, Techcrunch is deleting any unfavorable comments on their blog, just as they have done many other times previously.
There's no reason to attach everything you've got to an initial complaint, and a lot of good reason to wait until you see how the other side responds. If they want to settle, for example, the less you've had to disclose in public, the easier it might be.
So while they very well may not have had a contract, this confirms no such thing.
(Disclosure: I know Mike)
The sad truth is while techcrunch does "other things", its main operation is being a weblog, as posted in its about section:
"TechCrunch was founded on June 11, 2005, as a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.
TechCrunch has now grown into a network of technology focused sites offering a wide range of content and new media."
In its literal sense Techcrunch is anything but tech blog, more precisely is covers a subset of technology, which is mainly the business aspect of "online technology". A tech blog in it's truest sense would be Arstechnica or Engadget or even gizmodo. TC's tech writing depth goes as far as reporting "twitter being down for 30secs". Their writers couldn't tell their ass from their mouth if you were to ask them a simple question as to point out the underlying technical similarities between safari and chrome.
As much as I love hacker news, I am often troubled by some of our fascination towards techcrunch as a source for tech news. TC is often posted 4-5 times a day here on the front page.
Utter rubbish example #1:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/11/google-code-freeze/
example #2:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/10/playboy-iphone/
example #3:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/10/facebook-is-totally-dow...
Those are in last 24 hours...
Point 7: The entire blueprint of the device was created by me.
I don't exactly understand what he means by this. He created the blue print but someone else owns the IP? And what exactly is a blue print, in this case? Just saying what the device needs to do/look? Isn't that too easy to do?
This confirms that they had no contracts - Arrington's "exhibits" are some blog posts and emails. This guy seriously used to be a lawyer? The initial price point was just an attempt to hype it up by Arrington, so this whole device would never be much anyway. BTW, Techcrunch is deleting any unfavorable comments on their blog, just as they have done many other times previously.
Can we let this be the straw that breaks the camel's back in terms of NEVER POSTING TechCrunch articles?
This confirms that they had no contracts - Arrington's "exhibits" are some blog posts and emails. This guy seriously used to be a lawyer? The initial price point was just an attempt to hype it up by Arrington, so this whole device would never be much anyway. BTW, Techcrunch is deleting any unfavorable comments on their blog, just as they have done many other times previously.
This guy seriously used to be a lawyer? Jack Thompson used to be a lawyer, too. Having the training guarantees neither intellect nor sanity.