At 02:57 AM 9/20/2001 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >Interesting item in Yahoo!'s news coverage today: > >http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010920/tc/palm_fan_sites_duke_it_out_1.html > > Palm, fan sites duke it out > By Ian Fried CNET News.com > > What Palm hoped would be a way to clarify its marketing and protect > its brand name may have backfired. > > The company recently has been sending letters to a number of > handheld enthusiast sites with "Palm" in their domain name, seeking > to get the sites to change the reference to "Palm OS" by offering a > free license to use that name instead. > > However, some of those sites are changing their names to ones that > avoid Palm entirely. Palmguru.com is changing its name to > PocketAnywhere.com. Palmgoddess.com is now Pocketgoddess.com. And > Palminfocenter's editor in chief said he is mulling over his > options. > >...one wonders when companies will learn that you don't argue with your >customers. And you just simply *don't* fuck with your fans who are >doing your marketing for you. > >In related news, we note that the first hit for "SAS linux" at Google >leads to a page clarifying SI's own stance on use of its trademarks. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=sas+linux

But it's NOT SAS that's doing the clarifying <vbg>

>Peace.

Word

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