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Saturday, September 29, 2001

Palm weasels over its latest

Palm weasels over its latest round of nastygrams, in which it tried to bully fan-site owners into changing their URLs from "PalmWhatever.com" to "PalmOSWhatever.com"

Palm now says that it was just making a friendly suggestion in the spirit of "collaboration and open discussion." Funny, my collaborative, open discussions don't usually revolve around:

Letters from lawyers
Unilaterally imposed two-week deadlines
Accusations of trademark infringement

Honestly, would it be so hard to just say, "We did a dumb thing. Please, forgive us. Go ahead and keep on promoting our business, with our thanks and apologies?" Link Discuss (via Meerkat)

posted by Cory Doctorow at 06:42:28 AM permalink | Other blogs' comments

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