tamarindo

Yes, but when you have "questions" about something's authenticity, it means you are the one asking for proof. If you claim that it's a phony, however, the burden is on you to show why you think it is so.

  Facebook claims Ceglia remained silent for more 
  than six years and his claim is probably too 
  old to pursue.

Have any independent legal experts corroborated Facebook's statement that "his claim is too old to pursue"?

He wouldn't be the first person to quit his blog.

I like your idea a lot but I'm guessing that monitoring the site for copyright violations would be a major headache. This seems to be a showstopper for a lot of music startups that do not have affiliations with big music companies.

   imagine Amazon came up with a really good payment 
   services platform, and then said that in order to 
   use it, you had to live in their cloud. The market 
   would have to interact with their cloud to get access 
   to the payment services. Rackspace would lose access 
   to the segment of the target market that needed 
   this functionality.

Good example, but I thought the idea with OpenStack is to allow anyone to take this and run with it, customize it as they like and eventually end up with their own platform, potentially distinct from Rackspace's. In your example, Amazon says "in order to use the payment system, you have to live on the Amazon cloud" but I don't see any parallel restrictions in OpenStack, simply because it's open source and can be tailored unpredictably.

It's for this same reason that I question whether the benefits to Rackspace that you pointed out above really are such a sure thing for them. Seems like it could just as easily turn against them if someone else turns their open source solution to better advantage (assuming the open source license permits this).

So you're saying that they are maybe deliberately understating the pain of migrating platforms with this solution simply to achieve recognition as being in a leadership position.

If you are correct, this sounds like quite a cynical move to try to hoodwink potential customers into a false sense of security with an apparent promise of platform independence.