okay, so remember recently when i explained how there really was a web mail service called gmail that was around before elGoog got crazy and starting asking people for cell phone numbers (and tissue samples)? you can read the entire original thread on this site, including the message from jerry anders, the guy who really explained it all…but then, just when you thought that it couldn’t get any worse, jerry let me know that now sun microsystems is picking on him - and you can help!

how can you help jerry and javeo.com? you could just stop buying products from sun microsystems…but what’s that you say, you don’t even know what sun sells? you’ll never pay sun for staroffice? you’re not alone…then, uhhh, maybe just don’t use java…and that’s okay, because php is gonna kick it to the curb anyways (can i get an ‘amen’?)

so, how do i know that sun is picking on jerry? he sent me a note to fill me in…per this excerpt, “… as you know we were using gmail.net as our web-based email service name until we were run over by Google, with their purchase and release of gmail.com. So, we decide to suspend gmail.net until we could figure out what to do. In the meantime we decided to start using javeo.com as our primary domain name for our new email service — you know, pending legal battles and all that crap. Well, it appears that Sun feels threatened by the Javeo brand name which, according to Sun, causes confusion in the market place with their Java brand name. Javeo [pronounced ja-vA-o], which is a non-java, never before heard of web-based email service, confuses the masses with Java? Sun has threatened a lawsuit if we do not cease and desist. Come on, you’ve got to be kidding! What in gods name did we do to piss-off the corporate gods? We’re a 2-man company with 2,800 pound gorillas sitting on our shoulders. I’m not sure how much longer we can hold out. Maybe we should invite Microsoft into the fight? I’m sure that we’d done something to make them shudder in their foot steps. The saga continues. - JA”

damn it all! and what the shit? like it’s not enough that sun is clinging to elGoog hoping to get a free meal from whatever dribbles down elGoog’s chin as elGoog continues to binge on new pre-internet-OS services…but picking on this tiny company? come on! this is beyond saber rattling…if i were a conspiracy theorist, i’d begin to wonder about how sun and elgoog are in kahootz like this with other companies far beyond javeo…

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