{"id":1976,"date":"2007-09-28T01:09:55","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T08:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2007-09-29T16:17:47","modified_gmt":"2007-09-29T23:17:47","slug":"an-open-letter-to-the-owners-of-activerain-show-us-the-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1976\/an-open-letter-to-the-owners-of-activerain-show-us-the-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"An open letter to the owners of ActiveRain: Show us the contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Messrs. Heaton and Washburn, owners of ActiveRain,<\/p>\n

My take on your having released your lawsuit against Move, Inc., and their response<\/a> is that you know with a high degree of confidence that you cannot prevail in court. I read your original lawsuit as an attempt to extract something<\/i> from Move, Inc., even though there is no chance they will proceed with the planned acquisition of ActiveRain. When that initial foray failed, my thinking is that you released your petition and their response because you hope to pressure Move, Inc., in the court of public opinion.<\/p>\n

All that’s as may be. Those two documents don’t interest me nearly as much as whatever acquisition agreements were executed between ActiveRain and Move, Inc. Those documents will detail specifically what information you had agreed to disclose, and what Move, Inc., had pledged to do — and not do — in its turn.<\/p>\n

Attorney’s briefs are full of bluster and bravado, but, in fact, it is these acquisition agreements that will be dispositive in any formal hearing of your allegations.<\/p>\n

Ergo, I ask that you release those<\/i> documents for public scrutiny. When we have had an opportunity to determine what was actually agreed to, in writing, we can better judge the validity of your complaints.<\/p>\n

I know that your knee jerk response will be to insist that those documents are too vital to your court case to be disclosed. But, if that were true, the corollary proposition would be that the documents you have<\/i> made public — your initial petition and Move, Inc.’s response — are not<\/i> vital to your court case — are not actually of any importance at all. This I am completely prepared to believe.<\/p>\n

In fact, it’s one or the other. Keeping one’s private business to oneself is everyone’s right, but partial<\/i> transparency is necessarily deception. If your goal is to proclaim to the world that you have been badly used, you must show us the violated terms of the contracts by which you were so cruelly violated.<\/p>\n

If you will not do this, I will regard your having released your petition and Move, Inc.’s response as nothing but Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Messrs. Heaton and Washburn, owners of ActiveRain, My take on your having released your lawsuit against Move, Inc., and their response is that you know with a high degree of confidence that you cannot prevail in court. I read your original lawsuit as an attempt to extract something from Move, Inc., even though there is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","9":"category-technology","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1981,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1981\/the-voices-of-bitter-experience-activerains-petition-against-move-inc-is-a-heart-breaking-sob-story-with-no-legal-merit\/","url_meta":{"origin":1976,"position":0},"title":"The voices of bitter experience: ActiveRain’s petition against Move, Inc., is a heart-breaking sob story with no legal merit","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 29, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I've read ActiveRain's lawsuit against Move, Inc., twice now. 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