IBM is already a Java licensee and the Java used on the AS/400 is licensed to users from Sun via IBM. This should be totally obvious to anyone who has ever seen the JavaTM logo anywhere.
Sorry to go meta, but I think you started it with the following.
> people have been thrown off HN for considerably less than what 'Zed' gets away with
What is it with the quotes around the guy's real name? Is that some super lame attempt at dehumanizing your opponent? Even if you thought Zed was a pseudonym, it is the only name you have for the guy so, no quotes necessary. I think this is a Freudian slip on your part.
Zed Shaw is not going to get thrown off Hacker News for something he writes on his blog. Zed Shaw doesn't get away with anything. Many people listen to Zed Shaw because he wrote Mongrel, defrocked the Ruby/Rails priesthood, works hard and is really nice to anyone that asks for his help. Many other people don't listen to Zed Shaw because he takes the piss out of them, are thin-skinned or think he is wrong or rude or both. Zed Shaw earns and he burns just like the rest of us. He doesn't get away with anything.
> respond with grace instead of with bile
Conventional wisdom.
> "programmers listen to the biggest asshole"
Reality.
> you're on the wrong track
Oh no, I'm loosing them. I better attract the crowd with more conventional wisdom.
How embarrassing for you. How exactly would the email go to the forger if they are spoofing YOUR email address. Coffee in the morning, gin at night. Never switch the two.