Friday, May 26, 2006

No Free Lunches Mr. O'Reilly.. tsk tsk

Read in the (remarkably long) comments of the discussion thread on the whole O'Reilly v IT@Cork debacle:

Folks this is getting out of hand. What's the big deal?

If people wanted to use Web 2.0 freely then they should've come up with the name themselves.

There's no free lunch!

Posted by: tim o'reilly at May 26, 2006 06:14 PM

"If people wanted to use Web 2.0 freely then they should've come up with the name themselves."

http://www.allbusiness.com/periodicals/article/383501-1.html

Quite so!

Posted by: John McCormac at May 26, 2006 06:26 PM


In case you're not interested in following that link, it's an article using the term 'Web 2.0' back in 1999.

While I think it's definitely a mountain out of a molehill situation , I'm beginning to think that Mr.O'Reilly should open-source the term rather quickly and stop the bleeding so to speak. Reputations can be sullied pretty quickly in the blogosphere these days and he's doing nothing to prevent it.

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