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Seems that HP is torqued about Jonathan Schwartz's weblog - they sent Sun a nasty-gram asking him to cease and desist. Here's the story on that:

Sun Microsystems' high-profile president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz has struck a raw nerve with his inflammatory Weblog entries which has led to Hewlett-Packard sending a letter of demand to Sun to put an end to the commentary.

HP has confirmed a letter was sent earlier this week demanding Schwartz stop using his blog to comment on HP's strategic direction.

The HP spokesman declined to provide any details about the content of the letter except to say it specifically refers to Schwartz's Weblog commentary about HP.

Schwartz has not been shy with his statements about the HP's strategies, particularly regarding its Unix operating system, HP-UX.

In a blog entry, dated August 18, Schwartz referred to HP-UX as a 'dying' operating system.

Scobles take on this is that you shouldn't say anything bad about the competition - it only motivates them. I'm not so sure that always works - sometimes it makes sense to comment on a competitor's direction, sometimes it doesn't. What I will say is that it rarely makes sense to whine about it like HP is - it just makes you look silly. Ignore it or confront it with your own speech - but don't whine.