Congratulations!! This means JDE is big enough to matter!
I appreciate the idea of a fight and would gladly give a donation to the JDE
fight cause (I'll pick up an hour of lawyer time...and I know that is far
from enough, but if 100 of us do it, maybe it will help greatly).
However, it seems like it might be futile unless FSF or similar picks up the
cause as well. A name change is a bit passive, but I also don't want Paul's
valuable time distracted from the main goal of developing the JDE and XAE.
I think any name you decide on is fine. JDEE is fine and dandy, and I think
EmacsJDE is the best one yet...
...and I wonder how many of _their_ programmers use JDE...hmmmm.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On Behalf
> Of Paul Kinnucan
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 10:10 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Name change
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've received a certified letter from a lawyer representing a
> company named
> J.D. Edwards claiming that the acronym JDE is a trademark
> owned by them and
> demanding that I cease using it immediately. As I do not have
> the resources
> to contest this in court, the only recourse open to me AFAIK
> is to cease
> using the acronym to refer to the Java Development
> Environment for Emacs.
> So I am thinking about using the acronym JDEE henceforth when
> referring to
> the Java Development Environment for Emacs. I'd appreciate
> any suggestions
> you might have on how to proceed.
>
> - Paul
>
