As infuriating as this is, I'd like to remind everyone to be cordial with
regard to any feedback to JD Edwards. It would seem to be allright to send
something along the lines of "I am unhappy with your decision to pursue
trademark litigation with the Java Development Environment over the JDE
acronym...". But please don't send things like, "Your company
sucks...corporate bs....blah blah blah".
Paul has done an excellent job developing, enhancing, and coordinating feature
submissions. I'd hate to see him take a bunch of heat because J.D. Edwards
received a bunch of hate mail from JDE users in addition to the trademark
dispute.
On a more humorous note, perhaps you could just change the name of it to a
symbol and refer to it as the "development tool formerly known as JDE"...
"Mandler, George" wrote:
> > By the way if any of the JDE users would like to send
> > comments about this
> > I believe the company is (Paul correct this I got the wrong
> > one from searching
> > on the net).
> >
> > J.D. Edwards & Company
> > One Technology Way
> > Denver, CO 80237
> >
> >
> > Direct to J.D. Edwards headquarters:
> > 877-613-9412 or 303-334-4000
> > For regional sales and marketing inquiries:
> > 800-727-5333
> >
> > J. Syre
>
> This corporate bullying really gets my blood boiling. When I get home (I
> don't want to use my company's servers!) I plan on going to www.jde.org to
> the "contact us" page. They have a feedback form where we can tell them
> what we think.
> An important point is that JDE is free software. (Irnoically they are a
> software house that uses Java for their development!)
>
> --george
