1) Maker Faire, Netizen, and Web 2.0 are all registered for a single use: Conferences. They named a conference and they should be allowed to protect that name. If someone started running their own thing and couldn't come up with a name so they called it E3 or PCExpo, you'd expect the holders of those trademarks to sue, no?

2) The "Website" trademark application was also for a single use, in this case "computer software used to create a server on a global computer network..". Apparently, O'Reilly used to make a piece of software called "Website Professional", and it was this uninspired name they were trying to protect. Again, color me unsurprised.

This entire argument has gone back and forth a million times already, so it's kind of pointless. People who are anti-trademarks will argue that this is word-squatting and that "netizen" and "web 2.0" are public domain words. People who aren't will argue that the trademarks only cover their original uses by O'Reilly and thus using the word(s) netizen on a website or a newspaper or even the cover of a best-selling book is not infringement.

Thanks to the original poster for defining what "AQ" is supposed to be, double thanks to the editor for just posting this without clarification.

If this gets popular, and as presumably the interface will be similar to all other Nokia products, people will realise that Linux is not necessarily hard to use.

You mean like the N-Gage? It took me 20 minutes to send a 3-word text message on a demo N-Gage and then it gave me the helpful error message "format unsupported".

hmmm.... The timing of these incidents seems a little too coincidental. "If it wasn't for those GUID's secretly embedded in MS Office documents, we may have never tracked down this evil perpertrator", says Joe Researcher, on his way to the bank to cash in his check from billg. "Thank goodness for GUID's!"

or maybe i've had too much coffee this morning - my paranoia settings could need some recalibration.