Mr. Apple's closing: Oh, and John? It should be “then,” not “than.” But I don’t have the time, the inclination or the writ to attempt to clean up your use of the language, even assuming I could get someone to listen to me.

OK...who is right? Because "than" looks correct to me.

JEM: There was a "than" after a "than" that should have been a "then."

Then the than that's there should be a than, but the then that's there was a than and has been changed to a then.

Does this make you reconsider how fun baseball can be?

Bucky, who's on first?

As a friend of you both, I can see where this all started. Chuck got all ranty about a subject he normally doesn't rant about -- he's not a copy editor, though of course being intelligent he can clearly see the error in the logo.

And you, sir, were a little less charitable than you usually are, due to the effects of that nasty tree sex.

If Mr. Apple knew you better (I'm surprised he doesn't, after all his years in the biz) he'd know that no one cares more about the craft of copyediting than you do.

But he should also realize, as I do, that it's not our job to cater to the whims of corporations. We don't start a sentence with a lowercase "eBay," nor do we suffer the exclamation point in Yahoo!

Without even having to ask, I'm certain Sun house style is "oh-apostrophe-ess" without any particular regard to the direction of the apostrophe other than what your text editor's "smart" feature does.

As you put it, you have bigger fish to fry. It's true that it's incorrect, nonstandard, etc., but for your purposes it's a non-issue because you don't honor such silliness anyway.