Comments on: Automattic vs SixApart, the fight gets personal

By: Duncan Riley

Duncan Riley — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:37:37 +0000

Sorry Everton, until I just went back a read the entire comment thread (that’s one serious thread BTW!) I hadn’t seen it. We all have bad days and thankfully this is all it was. Anil, great response, and fair call, we’ve all been there before.

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:54:04 +0000

I was going to say the same thing, but Anil has beat me to it. You forgot to add Anil’s apology in your excerpts.. I guess that was an oversight?

By: Anil

Anil — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:30:17 +0000

Sorry, that should have read, “I suspect you’d find the same answer from Matt when he and I have been on the opposite sides of these conversations as well.”

By: Anil

Anil — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 04:28:26 +0000

“Are we seeing the start of an all out war between SixApart and Automattic, or is this just more petty snipping that is typical unfortunately of large stretches of the blogosphere, even including the occasional commenter here at 901am?”

Unfortunately, I think it’s nothing more than catching me on a day when I had been frustratingly stuck in airports all day and responding to private emails in a public comment form. I apologized to Matt, and both he and I have been on both sides of these conversations before. I’d had this conversation with Toni Schneider just a few months ago about how we’re both much more interested in growing the entire audience for blogging than we are in taking petty shots at each other.

Of course, being human, we all do that sometimes, too. I suspect you’d find the same answer when Matt and I have been on the opposite sides of these conversations as well.