[woodruffw]

You're right, I didn't know who he was. But I read some of his posts just now. He's clearly very angry (it's not healthy to be so angry), but I also don't see anything that meets a standard of defamation. He seems to have receipts for just about every potentially defamatory claim he makes, which presumably come from this big Twitter archive of his.

[dcow]

He’s actually been sued for defamation and there’s a bunch of history that isn't on his public Twitter account.

[woodruffw]

Okay. I'm going based on what I saw on his blog. I'll reserve further judgement.

(Barring a conviction for defamation, I don't know what a suit says. There have been a handful of defamation lawsuits in the tech community over the last decade, all(?) of which ended in embarrassment for the complainant.)

[trbrown]

For the record I've never been sued for defamation (I was once sent a cease-and-desist letter by John De Goes, a Scala conference organizer who didn't like that I had publicized things he'd said and done, but he was bluffing and never even replied to my lawyer's response).

[dcow]

Huh, didn't realize that was an empty threat. My bad.