Dave Winer threw down the gauntlet at Kottke for implying that Dave was against the Google Autolink feature because Google chose to buy another blog company instead of UserLand. He asked Kottke to either have the guts to mention Dave Winer explicitly or STFU.

I was looking forward to some fireworks, but it looks like Dave forgave Kottke or the spat was settled offline; the challenge has been removed from Dave's blog post.