I'm quite surprised that he even bothered to say something to Doug about that, let alone publicly as HBase is not for profit and there is no trademark on HBase

I'm quite surprised that he even bothered to say something to Doug about that, let alone publicly as HBase is not for profit and there is no trademark on HBase (please correct me if I'm wrong). Seems a little childish to me. I will say this though, Doug comes off as having HBase envy and now that he created Hypertable, Inc. I don't want to lend as much trust to his analysis of HBase.