Dmitry Grinberg Gets C&D'd by Palm

or, like Rastick says, just do a "SDHC" type of name solely for the SDHC driver/app.

Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p

Palm_USR_3Com_Handspring_Palmsource_PalmOne_OrangeBlobPalm_NearlyMotoOS_ALPOS_NovaCollapse.com

... but that might be too long, so maybe ...

BowlOfSpaghettiFanBoys.com might be better? I don't know.

Pat Horne

http://www.thepalm.com/

I've long maintained that Palm is nowadays run by beancounters, spin maestros, smoke & mirrors charlatans and marketing types. There's not a whit of innovating, engineering, or "customer delighting" individuals left there.

In case anyone's forgotten, a few quick examples to job everyone's memory:

-Palm wanted everyone to quickly forget about Graffiti 1 and acted like it never existed once the Zire 71 & T|C appeared.

-Palm tried their damndest to deny any difference between Hungarian & USA-made m505s despite plenty of evidence to the contrary.

-Then Palm wanted everyone to quickly forget about PDAs once the Treo 650 and 700-series appeared, along with trying to make everyone forget that screen resolutions higher than 320x320 exist under Palm OS (thus the constantly changing DIA code etc) as well as wi-fi.

-Now Palm are trying to overlook the fact that memory cards larger than 4 gigs exist, so of course they are going to try to aggravate Dmitry. The C&D letter materializes alongside Dmitry's beta release and the (likely) impending EOL of Palm's remaining handhelds. Thus the lack of support both in-house and the crackdown on guys like Dmitry who are trying to make up for Palm's shortcomings and make a few $ in the process.

Palm only cares about what's the newest/latest/hottest thing from them. Were it not for carrier pressures, I can guarantee you that they'd NEVER release any ROM patches or fixes. The Centro might be TODAY's hotness (at the expense of the Treo 755p/680 etc) but in a few months when those new low-cost WinMob smartphones come out, it'll be yesterday's stale fish as far as Palm's concerned.

P.S. Anyone still think Nova is real and is going to be finished in the next 90-120 days?

Pilot 1000->Pilot 5000->PalmPilot Pro->IIIe->Vx->m505->T|T->T|T2->T|C->T|T3->T|T5->Zodiac 2->TX->Verizon Treo 700P->Verizon Treo 755p

If Palm had any brains left there they'd be hiring the guy to run their OS6 team rather than just making legal potshots at him. They could buy up his URL registration in the bargain.

Of course, Palm has devolved into a company that seems to spend all their energy flying to Redmond for OS releases and visiting Toys-R-Us' Fisher-Price aisles for the majority of their styling and design cues. And learning how to treat customers with all the sensitivity of a "Best" Buy receipt nazi.


Paying my annual PDA update tax to Palm since 1997.

From my understanding of trademark law, Palm are doing the right thing and have to press their case to avoid losing control of the trademark.

A C&D is the least nasty approach they can take, and that should only require Dmitry to rename his very useful stuff.

Actually having Palm in your name is more of a negative today. Palm stands for old, handheld, and in many peoples minds monochrome. Ask the average non techie type what a Palm is and they might describe a Palm III to you.

If there is one thing Palm is really good at though it's severing ties with its fan base.

The last known classic PDA user.
I've recently upgraded from a Palm TX to a Newton MP2000!
http://newtonpda.googlepages.com

-i create site
...5 years pass...
-i create plmsdhc and have successful beta
...a week passes...
-the letter arrives
...3 hours pass...
-i move site
-i write responce
...a day passes...
-the news is picked up by most palm-related news sites, some bigger(non-palm-themed news sites) ones are also interested in writing on this

that is all so far

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Software engineer at PalmPowerups.com
TH55/U + T|X2 + T|E2 + Zire 72 + Zire 31 + Visor Prism + WristPDA

Remember, these same engineers and beancounters got royally angry at us for informing them that the 15-16MB of usable "RAM" in the Treo 650 was nearly unusable as an "upgrade" from what Handspring gave the 600 before their surrender to Palm. They lied about it for a week, and then finally admitted the 650 had problems and that they would (eventually) release some software patches to make the best of a bad situation. Funny how the Treo 700 and beyond had 50MB+ of available RAM... Thanks for the extra 35MB, Palm - what changed?

So, Dmitry, 5 years without a hassle from Palm, and you made one too many fatal errors of releasing something that clearly showed Palm's engineers (and/or those who control them)that the emperor has no clothes. The King sez "whack his website."

Paying my annual PDA update tax to Palm since 1997.