Contacting slashdot would be interesting
1- to let open source community know what has happened with this story.
It seemes it 's not the last time trademark and patents will hit open source
projects.
2- to get some advertising for the new name, to avoid loosing users.
Steff
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 07:53, Paul Kinnucan wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Taking into consideration your feedback and on the advice of Richard
> Stallman, I have decided to accede to J.D. Edwards demand that I change the
> name of the JDE. I plan to send a letter notifying them of my decision
> tomorrow.
>
> I have decided to use JMode as the new name of the JDE because it has an
> Emacs flavor, is not trademarked in the U.S., and has received generally
> favorable comments from JDE users. I have asked Sunsite Denmark to provide
> me with a new set of domain, mailing list, and repository addresses based
> on jmode. To ease the transition to the new name, I have asked Sunsite
> Denmark to redirect the old addresses to the new. I will let you know as
> soon as the new addresses become effective. I will start changing the name
> on the JDE website pages and in the documentation over the next few days. I
> have not decided whether to change the name in the source code yet but I
> probably will ASAP to avoid confusion.
>
> If you can think of anything else that I can do to minimize the impact of
> this name change on you, please let me know.
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
