I wish you guys the best.

I can tell you that companies who survive on building and syndicating content don’t share the same POV because producing content is expensive.

But that’s all an academic discussion at this point. The bottom line is this: Russ is Russ. I feel strongly about the subject, but ultimately I don’t have time for the “blogger wars”. We just had *another* large company call to license us because, using their words, “…you (Greenlight) set the standard.”

At the end of the day, that kind of mindshare is far more valuable then any posts in the bloggosphere.

Kevin, I understand your frustration. Personally, I blog because I enjoy it, and enjoy participating in the discussion of mobile. It’s an emerging segment that is changing the world so drastically that it’s actually tangible on a day to day basis, and blogs are the only way you can keep up with it.

If someone took my blog word-for-word and reposted it with ads, it wouldn’t stop me from enjoying the discussion or wanting to blog. It’s especially important for company leaders to offer discussion, so that consumers and enthusiasts get a forum to see what you’re thinking and influence your opinions so your products reflect the needs of the community.

Believe me, I can tell you a story or two about product copying – even when I worked in medicine I had a Japanese company take photographs of my GUI and show up next year with an exact copy of it. I just had to step it up.

So I humbly encourage you to keep blogging and turn your attention to rallying your team to battle Russ. It’ll be a great race – rendering philosophies, ad placement debates, .NET versus Java (I’m assuming Russ is working in Java).

If you need to take your blog down to focus in this way, that’s understandable. But it will be a loss not having your voice in the discussion.

Cheers