On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Pending your reply, I have already desisted from using JDE on
> the main web page for the Java Development Environment for
> Emacs. If I receive a response from you denying my request, I
> will remove JDE from subsidiary pages and from the
> documentation as rapidly as I can.
I like everything except this closing paragraph. It would be too
easy for them to just say, well then decease. Don't threaten,
but leave the door open for a fight, so that they would at least
have the incentive to look at the web page and think about free
software and such. They certainly aren't going to care about how
many years you've put in, or that it is highly regarded or that
it would cause confusion in the community... What they would care
about would be something like.
,----[ MAYBE YOU COULD WRITE SOMETHING LIKE ]
| Many other open source software movements have had the same type
| of threatening commands and they have decided to undergo a legal
| battle to retain their rights. I do not want to do this, as it
| would be very time consuming and costly, but please understand,
| that if we were to have a legal battle over this, your reputation
| could suffer, as it has in the previous legal battles with
| free/open source software movements.
`----
Then quote them some examples. This would at least make them go
through a process of discovery on what it is that they are
threatening.
--
Galen Boyer
It seems to me, I remember every single thing I know.
