Although you are right, there would be a substantial difference between the cost for a letter of that length versus a brief rebuttal (although of course the und

Although you are right, there would be a substantial difference between the cost for a letter of that length versus a brief rebuttal (although of course the underlying legal analysis would have still been undertaken, committing that legal analysis to paper would have taken additional time). I do take your point that it is good publicity and on a related note, it is an interesting tactic to publicly disclose the legal response. It obviously will feed into the public support that the Oatmeal is receiving. I'm not taking anything away from the letter itself - it was a good read - it's just that I don't think FJ's letter warranted or indeed deserved such an in-depth response.