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Netbooks Popular Enough For a C&D From Psion
Kevin C. Tofel writes "After watching the netbook industry explode from nothing to 14 million sales in year, the time is right for Cease & Desist letters. Psion, a UK computer company that years ago sold a small sub-notebook called a netBook, is starting to protect the term. At least one netbook enthusiast site received a C&D for using the 'netbook' term and others are sure to follow. The site was given three months to stop using the term. Ironically, it isn't the enthusiast sites that coined the popular term. In the spring of 2008, Intel dubbed these devices netbooks to help define a market for their low-powered Intel Atom CPU."
Notapieceofshitpsionbook
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Plamtops or Subnotebooks.
Would they be running PlamOS?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Is there a trademark registered on "Asshole"?
Yes. It's registered to a Mr. erroneus aka UID: 253617.
A: "What's that?"
B: "A netbook."
A: "Oh. What's a netbook?"
B: "This."
A: "Oh. What's that?"
(A gets beaten to death with a netbook.)
Imagine if someone tried to pretend that two computing devices having the same name was the same as a computing device and a stack of wood pulp sheets with some glue on the end.
Anyone who hasn't tasted a genuine Vermont Extra Sharp Cheddar Cheese hasn't tasted the best Cheddar cheese there is.
"Remember, there never were pineapple-almond cookies here."
Wow... my TRS 80 Model 100 runs for a week on 4 AA batteries.