CNet is running a story called Open-source divorce for Apple’s Safari.

I see they decided to go with the cute rhyming tactic this time. Given its track record, I was positive CNet was going to run a story like Apple’s Safari Accused of “Hogging” the “Lion’s Share” of Code, or KHTML Developers Have “Bear” of Time Working with Safari, or David Hyatt Accused of “Lion” About Layout Code, or KHTML Developers Feel “Cheetah’d” by Apple. Such titles are clever. You can tell because they refer to animals you might see on a safari. These animals are wrapped in quotes.

Seriously, if I see one more story like Mozilla holds “fire” in naming fight I’m going to fire their foxing headline writer. Mozilla burns to prove Firefox worthy! Bugs put heat on Firefox! Are you in hot pursuit of Firefox? IBM sure is, they’re hunting Firefox coders (and Firefox itself is on the hunt)! Is there a chill in the air for Firefox, or is Firefox heating up? Is Mozilla’s Lightning going to strike Outlook?

Sometimes I think the stories we see on CNet are…ahem…the stories we see on CNet because someone came up with a “foxy” headline that was too good to pass up, so they wrote a story around it instead. They must be itching for us to announce a merger with Apple…I mean, can you imagine the possibilities? A Firefox Joins Apple’s “Safari”! Safari “Swallows” Mozilla Firefox! Or a three-way merger with us and Microsoft: Explorer Spots Firefox on Apple’s Safari. Bonus points for “spots” because it sounds leopard-y.

Oh I’m sorry, were you looking for actual commentary on the Apple/KHTML feud? Ben has some.