Minor nitpick for clarification:
Para 4:
I therefore respectfully request that you not contest my right to use the
acronym JDE further. By so doing, J.D. Edwards would show the Emacs and
Open Source communities that J.D. Edwards is a good corporate citizen.
Consider rewording to
I therefore respectfully request that you withdraw your challenge to my
right
to use the acronym JDE further. By so doing...
The original sounds a little like "By contesting my right to use... J.D.
Edwards is a good corporate citizen."
Regards
Jason
Paul Kinnucan
<paulk@mathwo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rks.com> cc:
Subject: Response Draft 2
07/20/01
01:59 AM
Hi all,
Here is an extensively revised draft of my response to J.D. Edwards that
incorporates many of your excellent suggetions.
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate and rely on your advice and
expressions of support.
Regards,
Paul
===============================================
July 20, 2001
Mr. Mark Reinhardt
Associate General Counsel
J.D. Edwards World Solutions Company
One Technology Way
Denver, Colorado 80237
Dear Sir:
This is in response to your letter dated July 11, 2001. I have been using
the acronym JDE to refer to the Java Development Environment for Emacs on
my web site and elsewhere since 1997. I use the acronym simply as shorthand
for my software package's formal name. I have no intention of competing
with any product or service of J.D. Edwards or creating the impression that
I am in any way associated with J.D. Edwards.
In the four-and-half years that I have used JDE, I have received thousands
of communications regarding my package. Yours is the first to mention J.D.
Edwards. This plus the facts that J.D. Edwards let its registration of JDE
with the U.S. Patent Office expire in 1998 and that it has not attempted
unto now to contact me regarding my use of JDE constitute prima facie
evidence that my use of JDE has not, in fact, created any confusion or harm
to J.D. Edwards.
On the other hand, the acronym JDE has become synonymous over the last
four-and-a-half years with the Java Development Environment for Emacs in
the Emacs and Open Source software communities where I and my package are
well known. Complying with your demand to cease using the acronym on my web
site and elsewhere would create confusion in these communities and would
cost me time that I can ill afford as a private individual who receives no
monetary benefit from the Java Development Environment for Emacs.
I therefore respectfully request that you not contest my right to use the
acronym JDE further. By so doing, J.D. Edwards would show the Emacs and
Open Source communities that J.D. Edwards is a good corporate citizen. An
examination of my web page should convince J.D. Edwards that my usage of
this acronym in no way creates the impression that I am in any way
associated with J.D. Edwards or that I am offering any software or service
that competes with a J.D. Edwards offering. However, I would be willing to
include an explicit disclaimer of any association with J.D. Edwards on my
web page.
I will be away on vacation next week and will not be able to respond to
J.D. Edwards' response to this letter until the following week.
Sincerely,
Paul Kinnucan
