Sun Crazy about JAVA !!!

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Subject: Sun Crazy about JAVA !!!
From: "Azeem I. Pirani" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 07:19:47 +0500
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>         SUN MICROSYSTEMS SUES ISLAND OF JAVA*
>
> Mountain View, CA -- Sun Microsystems today filed a trademark
> infringement against the island of Java* over the use of Sun's
> Java* trademark.
>
> Responding to criticism that the island has been called Java* for
> centuries, Sun lawyer Frank Cheatham said "Yeah, and in all that
> time they never filed for a trademark. They deserve to lose the
> name."
>
> Rather than pay the licensing fee, the island decided to change
> its name. They originally voted to change it to Visu Albasic, but
> an angry telegram from Redmond, Washington convinced them otherwise.
> The country finally settled on a symbol for a name -- a neatly-colored
> coffee cup which still evokes the idea of java. Since most
> newspapers and magazines will not be able to print the name of the
> island, it will hereafter be referred to in print as "The Island
> Formerly Known As Java*".
>
> The Island Formerly Known As Java* bills itself as a cross-landmass
> island, but so far has only been implemented in production on the
> Malay Archipelago. Africa is been rumored to have implemented it
> on Madagascar, but it is still in alpha testing.
>
> Lawyers from Sun would also like to locate the owners of the huge
> fiery ball at the center of the solar system. They have some legal
> papers for them...
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *Java is a Trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Anyone caught using the
>  trademark without permission will be beaten, flogged, sued, and forced
>  to use Microsoft products.
>
>--
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