Jared -

> Yes. That's how trademarks work.

It's not that they have applied for a trademark that upsets or confuses
me. It is that O'Reilly promoted the term "Web 2.0" as a general
description of the next generation of web behaviour and then they (or
their partner, CMP to be exact) applied to trademark it for conference
use. I can understand the ruckus that followed.

Having to come up with different terms for the same thing just to
circumnavigate the trademarking of a generic term does no one any
favours (IMHO).

Regards,

William Hudson
User-Centred Design Consultancy and Training
Syntagm Ltd
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