The Original MyPalm.com Returns

They ran the company into the ground.. jeprodixzing the future of our favorite handheld.

These dolts repeated the same mistakes they made at CrAPPLE. I recommend summary executions for these fools who destroyed shareholder value. Hell, at the minimum fire the lot and ta

I've dealt with the PALM marketing idiots before. I used to work for a startup company focusing on Palm software. Well, before I could conduct negotiations, the marketing idiots demanded that I take a bunch of them out for dinner at a trendy (and expensive) restaurant in the Valley. Well, during the dinner these idiots refused to talk about business and decided to order expensive wines. Well, I was mighty upset but thought I could salvage the situation. The day after, the idiots refused to take my phone calls and even alluded I needed to take them out again and set them up with girls (you know what I mean).

Well, it's pretty clear how these marketing fools destroyed the company. They were more concerned about free meals and girls than business. And don't even get me ranting about the head of marketing. You know: the idiot from Apple who wears color coordinated turbans.

"So much for "honest" and nice Palm and "ugly" M$.
There all the same - with one big difference - MS is clever and sucessfull - Palm is run evidently and confirmed by the book by a bunch of idiots"

Try hosting a website called "www.mymicrosoft.com" and see how fast Microsofts lawyers come down on you.

I can see both sides of the argument. Most people who host a website representing a product only have good intentions. But palm has to protect their intellectual property. This site is a perfect example. There is a ton of "Palm Bashing" that goes on in the comments to these stories, and more Palm bashing happening in the Forums. What would Palms motivation be for allowing their copyrighted and protected name to be used on this site without their permission? (Don't misunderstand me, this is the best Palm site out there, and one of my most visited sites!)
Palm allows these sites to exist using "Palm" in their names in the interest of keeping the peace. But it is their right and responsibility to police the illegal use of their trademarked name. This is one of the many wonderful things about America. You can protect your intellectual property.

Doug

The difference is that Microsoft is not part of the day to day english language, palm is. It is obvious from mypalm.com that the domain owner has a Palm OS computer, but that doesn't deflect from his right to register mypalm.com for his own use if he is not trying to gain revenue from the Palm company name.

Sting (the singer) had a similar problem when he tried to get sting.com off the person with the same nickname who registered the domain in 1995. He loast because sting was part of the general language, and the domain name holder was not making any attempt to either sell the domain or profit from the singers name. (As it happens Sting did end up buying the domain so sting.com is now the singers official site).