[Sunhelp] Ugh. Please read.

[Flynn, Harold M. III]

I wonder, have they pulled this BS with other Sun(tm)(copyright) directed
sites?  Ambulance Chasers *sigh*.

Hal

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Bill Bradford [SMTP:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 30, 2000 11:57 AM
> To:	sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject:	Re: [Sunhelp] Ugh. Please read.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 06:38:11PM +0100, Flynn, Harold M. III wrote:
> > It's always nice to know that something out there to help the general
> public
> > is so warmly accepted by corporations.  I really appreciate the fact
> that a
> > large group of people gathered together to focus on one companies
> products,
> > and to further promote good will about their products is appreciated by
> > company and repaid with legal threats, corporate bullying, and scare
> > tactics.  Is it entertaining that a company would make one HELL of an
> effort
> > to cut off it's nose in spite of it's face?  I wonder what USENIX would
> > think about this?  How about slashdot?
> 
> I dont know yet, and I'm waiting to talk to Sun's lawyers to see just what
> they want me to do.  Apparently the major problem was that I had copies
> of some PDF files that were obtained from www.sun.com, still mirrored on
> teh site after they were removed from the www.sun.com site, and the 
> SunHELP logo.
> 
> (at least according to the letter I got, which is going up as soon as I 
> have access to a scanner)
> 
> Bill
> 
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