I don't about that. If I remember correctly from my Business Law class I took is that
for a letter to be private that intent would have to be 'clearly defined' between the
two parties. 'Clearly defined' if I remember correctly had to be 'contractually
binding' either through written agreement and in some rare cases through verbal
agreement (and there are a gazillion stipulations that must be in place before
anything verbal could be construed to be binding, which in real world terms is
unlikely to happen.
Gibson Research (http://grc.com/downloaders.htm) received a very threatening letter
from Real Networks. His response was to immediately post it. The public backlash
against Real Networks caused them to back down. If he submitted to them they would
have keep right on doing bad things.
I could ask a lawyer in my neighborhood what she thought about posting the letter.
In regards, to the response to JD Edwards. I would state when you started using JDE,
that you do not feel that it harms them in any way, or that it causes confusion
between anything that they do and what JDE is for. You don't have to rattle your sabre
in this letter nor do you have to in any way say to them you have changed anything at
their request. In other words leave the last paragraph out.
I would state something to the affect that you would like to continue to use JDE,
because of the substantial effort it would take you to change it. Also, you might
include that is used around the world. Changing it would have an impact on many
individuals. In some manner you might make reference that those same individuals JD
Edwards is causing a lot of inconvenience to are potential customers.
I for one certainly would not knowingly use/recommend a product by a company that
practiced this kind of behavior.
J. Syre
> ----------
> From: Galen Boyer[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 2:38 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Draft Response
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > the web page should use the JDE name and expose the lawyer's
> > letter.
>
> I don't know. This could really backfire. I bet there are all
> sorts of legal ramifications if you make a private letter public.
>
> --
> Galen Boyer
> It seems to me, I remember every single thing I know.
>
