The 'netbooks' saga continues as "a Canadian mobile computer maker that owns the trademark and indeed has sold a product called Netbook in the past... began sending some tech bloggers and Netbook makers cease-and-desist notices late last year asking them to stop using the term 'Netbook.'" The company may own the trademark, but they have no say over whether people use the word in casual conversaion - otherwise we'd have to stop eating apples, making xeroses and taking aspirin. A site springing to the defense of the term 'netbook' has sprung up here. A petition to cancel the trademark - which hasn't been used for ten years - is working its way through the system (of course, I expect some other company - Dell, maybe, which launched the petition to cancel (it tried to trademark cloud computing last year) - to jump on the trademark as soon as its free). Via Michael Geist.
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