Re: JDEE - Trademark Issues

"Paul Kinnucan" <[email protected]> writes:

 > Ms. Freitas,
 > 
 > =20
 > 
 > Please be aware that the JDEE is not a "product." It is freeware
 > developed by me and many voluntary contributors, among others Sun
 > itself, over the last ten years for the benefit of those who want to use
 > Emacs to create Java programs. The JDEE is used by thousands of
 > programmers worldwide, both professional and students. As such, it has
 > made a not insignificant contribution to Java and Sun Microsystems. I
 > thus find insulting your implication that the JDEE somehow is infringing
 > upon or damaging Java or Sun in any way. My first instinct is to remove
 > the JDEE from the Internet to protect myself from this kind of
 > ridiculous harassment, which eats up my precious time and benefits no
 > one, least of all Sun. However, as this would be a disservice to Java
 > programmers who have come to rely on the JDEE,  I intend to update the
 > JDEE website to comply with Sun's trademark requirements as quickly as
 > my schedule permits. I am copying your email and my reply to the JDEE
 > mailing list because as stakeholders in the JDEE, JDEE users deserve to
 > know the reason for the changes in the JDEE website.

You are handling this with more calm than I could muster.  I'd be
tempted to point out how Victoria's parents must really be proud of
her now ... and how the Sun stockholders can rest easy now that the
Sun legal team is all over these miscreants who are putting Sun IP at
serious risk ... or how the RIAA must have missed Victoria when she
graduated ... but I'll resist all that small stuff and suggest that we
who use JDEE attempt to support the GNU and Apache Java related
activities and work towards the open sourcing of Java in whatever
ways that we can so that this kind of thread need never happen
again.

Victoria, I would suggest that you work through a Sun "plant" acting
in a volunteer role with Paul K on the JDEE team to affect your goals.
I suspect this will accomplish a reduction in angst level and
achievement of your goals while creating good will for Sun all around.

We should probably post this thread to Slashdot and a few other
interested news outlets if any further harassing messages from Sun
should arrive.  It's probably there already ...

-pmr