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VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS

March 28, 2000

Mr. William Charles Bradford II (aka Bill Bradford)
[address removed]

[return address removed]

Re:	Sun Microsystems, Inc - SunHelp.org website

Dear Mr. Bradford,

	I am an Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Sun").
Through the website, "SunHelp.org", it appears that you are: (i) illegally 
publishing and duplicating Sun Proprietary/Confidential documents; (ii): 
illegally disseminating Sun Proprietary/Confidential Information to third
parties; and (iii): violating Sun's Trademark rights by using the SunHelp
name and a logo similar to the Sun corporate logo in connection with the
marketing of your services and products through this website.  This may also
be occuring at other websites that you may own, or are asssociated with, and
these websites are:

	http://www.mindspring.com/~dwarfie
	http://www.workstations.org
	http://www.pdp11.org
	http://www.mrbill.net

	First and foremost, unauthorized duplication of Sun's confidential/
Proprietary documents constitutes copyright infringement and is punishable
in a federal criminal action pursuant to 17 U.S.C., Section 506 (a) by a fine
of up to $250,000.00 and imprisonment for up to five years.  In addition,
federal civil penalties provided in 17 U.S.C., Section 504 allow the recovery
of actual damages based upon the number of copies produced, or statutory
damages.  Where the copyright owner proves that the infringement was willful,
the court has discretion to increase the award of statutory damages up to 
$100,000 for each copyrighted work that has been infringed.  Further, 17
U.S.C., Section 505 provides for the recovery of attorney's fees by the
prevailing party.

	In this case, there is little question that your actions are 
nothing but willful.  Your admission on your website verifies this conclusion.
Your admission reads:

	"(NOTE: the .PDF files above are marked "Sun Proprietary/Confidential -
	Need to Know", so expect them to be yanked as soon as someone from
	Sun realizes that 

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			 they're accessible from the outside world.  I've
	got a local mirror of the files here, but will have to remove them
	if someone from Sun asks me to.)"

	In addition to committing copyright infringement, you have also 
clearly violated Sun's trade secrets by publishing, disseminating, and allowing
third parties access to Sun Proprietary/Confidential information.

	Furthermore, as I am sure that you are aware, Sun has well-established
trademark rights in the "SUN" name and logo.  Sun has spent a significant
amount of time and money promoting itself and its various products, 
technologies, and services with which it uses its Sun marks.  As a result,
Sun has developed considerable worldwide customer recognition and 
goodwill associated with its Sun marks.  In addition, Sun has reigstered or
applied to register the Sun mark and other Sun-based marks worldwide.  Thus,
products and services bearing Sun marks are understood to be from Sun or are
sponsored, approved, or endorsed by Sun.  Your use of our Sun marks appears
to violate our Sun Trademark Guidelines.  In addition, your use of the Sun marks
may cause consumers to be confused as to the source of your services and web
site, or may suggest that Sun has, in some way sponsored or is affiliated with
your services or web site.  Sun will not tolerate any conduct that violates
its trademark rights.

	Please be advised that, while Sun does not favor litigation, Sun is
fully prepared to pursue all of its civil remedies in this matter if it is 
not resolved to Sun's satisfaction.  We demand that you immedately: (i) return
all Sun materials to us; (ii) agree to never knowingly violate any of Sun's
trade secrets or copyright or trademark rights; and (iii) revise your web site
(or web sites) so that they do not violate Sun's trademark rights.  We would
appreciate receiving your written confirmation that you will agree to these
three points by no later than April 10, 2000.

	If you would like to discuss this matter further, please feel free to
call me at [number removed].  Thank you in advance.



				Very Truly Yours,



				Gerald Karczewski
				Assistant General Counsel, Microelectronics,
				a business unit of Sun Microsystems, Inc.


cc: Michael Gallagher, Vice President, Marketing
    David Farrell, General Counsel

						March 30, 2000



Bill Bradford
[address removed]

Gerald Karczewski
Assistant General Counsel, Microelectronics
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
901 San Antonio Road
Palo Alto, CA  94303
[email address removed,
 he was getting mailbombed by
 fans of my site]

Dear Mr. Karczewski,

	This email is in response to both your letter (delivered via Federal
Express) and our telephone conversation (held at approximately 2:40pm Central
Standard Time, March 30th, 2000) with regards to my web site, located at
http://www.sunhelp.org.

	First and foremost, is the issue of Sun proprietary/confidential
documents with details about the Sun product code-named "topdog", which were
publicly available via the WWW.SUN.COM website and discovered by using the 
search engine on that site.  The files in question were located at the 
following URLs on or around February 22nd, 2000:

http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/SPARCengineUltraAXe/docs/Topdog_block.pdf   
http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/SPARCengineUltraAXe/docs/Topdog_ATXrear.pdf 
http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/SPARCengineUltraAXe/docs/Topdog_board.pdf   
http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/SPARCengineUltraAXe/docs/Topdog_Airflow.pdf 
http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/SPARCengineUltraAXe/docs/Topdog_2Urear.pdf  
http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/SPARCengineUltraAXe/docs/Topdog_power.pdf   

	The references/links on my web site ("www.sunhelp.org") to these 
documents, and the local mirror copies of those documents on my web site, 
have been removed.  In fact, the entire "Rumor Mill" section of my web 
site has been removed and shut down permanently, and will not be 
re-established.

	You have my word that no further content like this (Sun proprietary/
confidential information) will be knowingly posted to my web site in the 
future, regardless of its origin or public availability status.

	Second, is your concern that some of the other web sites that I
run might contain Sun proprietary/confidential information and/or files.
I'll go down the list of sites, one-by-one, and explain what each is used
for.

	http://www.mindspring.com/~dwarfie

	 - I have nothing to do with this site; it appears to be a list
	   of Solaris x86 resources provided by "Alan Orndorff", and 
	   only contains a hyperlink to the page at www.sunhelp.org.
	   I do not host this site, nor control any of the content.

	http://www.workstations.org

	 - I run this site.  It is a general "UNIX Workstation information"
	   site, with links to information and resources for all major
  	   brands of computers that run UNIX or UNIX-like operating systems.
	   The only Sun-related information on these pages is a link back
	   to the page at www.sunhelp.org, along with pointers to Sun's
	   "Free Solaris" program, Sun's homepage itself, and Sun's 
	   online documentation resources at http://docs.sun.com.

	http://www.pdp11.org

	 - This site is dedicated to preserving information about DEC/Digital's
	   (now Compaq) series of 16-bit PDP-11 minicomputers that were 
	   produced from 1970 to 1990.  There is nothing relating to Sun at 
	   all on this page.

	http://www.mrbill.net

	 - This site is my personal web page.  The only Sun-related information
	   on this site is a link to the SunHELP page, and a page describing
	   the Sun hardware that I personally own.

I believe these explanations should clear up any concerns you have about the
above web sites.

	Third, is the issue of trademark violations with regards to the
logo for the SunHELP site and the site name itself.  I believe that I had
sufficient disclaimers/trademark notifications up on the site in the past
to satisfy any requirements Sun might have had, and make sure that visitors
to the site were aware that it is not sponsored, endorsed, or represented
Sun Microsystems, Inc. in any way.  You can see the disclaimer that is on 
the site (and largely unchanged for the past 3 years) at this URL:

	http://www.sunhelp.org/copyright.php3

I will be revising this copyright and trademark notice as necessary in
the next few hours per the guidelines outlined on the web page located
at http://www.sun.com/policies/trademarks/.

As of this morning, I have also placed on the top of every page at the site, 
in large yellow and white lettering, the following statement:

	THIS SITE DOES NOT REPRESENT SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC IN ANY WAY.
	SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. DOES NOT SPONSOR, APPROVE, OR ENDORSE
	THE CONTENT OF THIS WEB SITE.

	As for your concern that the SunHELP logo too closely resembles
the Sun Microsystems, Inc. logo, that logo, formerly located at
http://www.sunhelp.org/images/sunhelp-purple-small.png, has been replaced
on all pages with a simple yellow rectangle with the words "SUNHELP.ORG" in
black text.  I believe that this is different enough from the Sun logo that
there will be no risk of customer confusion.  I have also changed any
purple or "Sun Blue" parts of the web site to yellow and black.

	During our telephone conversation, you asked if I intended to change
the name of the SunHELP web site.  I believe that that won't be necessary,
given that I've made a more than adequate effort (changing the logo, colors,
putting the large-lettered disclaimer on every page, and updating the 
copyright/trademark dislcaimer as needed)  to make sure that visitors
to the site know that the content provided is not sponsored, approved, or
endorsed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. in any way, shape, fashion, or form.

Another note should be that the site is a .ORG - run as a non-profit entty,
as opposed to the .COM extension on all Sun-sponsored sites (www.sun.com,
www.sunfreeware.com, etc).

In addition, changing the name of the site would be considerably difficult,
not only for myself, but for the more than 1000 people who currently subscribe
to informative information-exchange mailing lists that are hosted on the
site, as well as people who use the web site every day (more than 1.8 million 
hits since June 23rd, 1999 - see http://www.sunhelp.org/stats for current
web site statistics).  On a side note, after America Online, the next SIX top
visitors to my site are Sun web proxy servers, indicating a high amount of
use of the site by Sun Microsystems employees themselves:

	ariel.sun.com
	dollar.usec.sun.com
	lobuje.sun.com
	hebrides.eu.sun.com
	saturn5.sun.com
	boron.eu.sun.com

Renaming/moving the site would inconvenience a number of Sun employees as
well, it seems.  I've had the site up under the SUNHELP.ORG domain name
for the past two years, with lots of visitors (Sun personnel included),
and no one has expressed concern about the domain name until now.

	I believe that the actions I have taken, as well as this letter, should
address all of your concerns as outlined to me via your letter of March 28th,
and during our telephone conversation March 30th.  If you have any further
questions/comments/requests, please feel free to contact me at home, telphone
number , or via email - mrbill@sunhelp.org, and we can work out
any problems or differences in an amicable manner, conditions agreeable to
both parties, without resorting to litigation.




						Sincerely,



						William C. Bradford II
						aka Bill Bradford
						Maintainer, WWW.SUNHELP.ORG
						mrbill@sunhelp.org