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Arrington has said that many who attended this event were friends of his. I'd think it wouldn't be too difficult to sense a strange vibe and that something unusual was going down. I've seen Arrington make some big claims (last.fm handing over records to the RIAA (unsure if that was resolved)), but these are pretty damaging accusations, and you've got to realize that more than just page views, there are a few other things riding on this recent piece -- like the friendships of those he's accused of colluding, general respect among the angel/vc community and beyond. That coupled with this post, with a tl;dr of HE's WrONg ANd I WanT TO BE AbraSIVE AnD NOT PROviDE REASONABle LEVel-heaDED ARGumEnTS, makes me side with Arrington for now, although Fred Wilson's post does make a lot of sense.

Frankly, that's more just McClure's style -- to be abrasive and have 9 different colors in his posts.

I can't wait until I have enough money to have a style!

Can't help but think of:

Your shower shoes have fungus on them. You'll never make it to the bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy, you'll be classy. If you win 20 in the show, you can let the fungus grow back and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win 20 in the show, however, it means you are a slob.

- Crash (Bull Durham)

Gladly, my style is poor written english.

last.fm vehemently denied giving data to the RIAA however just a few months later 3 of the founders all quit (Felix, Martin & RJ) which splashed fuel on the rumour fire as to what had really happened.

This. I am sick of it coming up on here and on reddit. A lot of people seem to have made their judgements and moved on, but when the report came out that last.fm actually did leak data, these same assholes ignored it (and it still comes up today!)

> Arrington has said that many who attended this event were friends of his.

How apt.

That's disingenuous --that's called reported speech. (in reported speech, tenses go back one).

I'm sorry, non-native speaker here, that's just what it meant to me. Shall we continue in Dutch ?

Would it surprise you to learn that even Arrington's "Friends" don't necessarily want him around all the time?

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