In his Doc Searls Weblog Doc writes provocatively about why he thinks Microsoft will win their appeal against Judge Jackson's ruling. I should make Doc Searls' articles a more regular read - I like his style:

Metaphors matter. In fact, nothing matters more, because metaphors are the magma from which our mountains of words extrude. Metaphors make meaning. They are what allow us to start sentences we don't know how we'll finish, and to finish sentences we don't remember how we started. They are what allow us forget the words another person speaks or writes yet to remember what they mean.