ora owns web2.0 - and will sue your ass if you try to use it

Dominic Mitchell dom at happygiraffe.net
Sun May 28 00:20:57 BST 2006


On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 12:00:48AM +0100, danny staple wrote:
> Maybe its time the community just threw out the term "web 2.0" and
> called it "internet 2.0", then use some sort of copyleft registration
> to stop any company trying to grab the thing as a tradename. Sure, let
> them use it as *part* of a registered tradename, but not grab the
> whole term. Its kind of like the tradename Windows. Can creative
> commons be applied to a named term?

Didn't "Internet 2.0" happen in 1983 with the switch from NCP to TCP/IP?

-Dom (0x20 today!)


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