Dell Pulls An O’Reilly Trademarks “Cloud Computing”
By Daya Baran at August 01, 2008 0 CommentsDell has used an under handed tactic made famous by Tim O’Reilly. The company has trademarked the name “cloud computing”. O’Reilly trademarked the name “Web 2.0″ (and even claimed to have coined it - See: Shame On You Tim O’Reilly) to prevent others from using the term for commercial purposes. This is precisely what Dell intends to do.
Cloud computing is a term/phrase used to describe software processing that’s run on servers that reside virtually and are accessed via the web. Terms like “cloud computing” and “Web 2.0″ are generic and are in More»
Labels: cloud computing, oreilly, unethical, web 2.0
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