* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
> In article <al3hm5-1ig.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Mark Kent <mark.kent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The issue here is that cloud computing has been in regular usage for a
>> long time, so trying to grab it as a trademark is not right and proper.
>
> It is interesting to note that all ~20 external references Wikipedia
> cites in the "cloud computing" article, and that actually use the term
> "cloud computing" are from later than Dell's trademark application date.
>
> Do you have any specific reason to believe the term was in regular usage
> before that?
How about this:
http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/08/01/dell-has-applied-trademark-term-cloud-computing
Dell is not the only company to go after this term. The first
trademark application was made in 1998 under serial number 75291765
by NetCentric Corporation, a company that used to provide
"carrier-class Internet fax technology." The application was killed
less than a year later. Dell's application is dated March 23, 2007,
well after the first mention I was able to find of the term, which
appeared as "cloud" and "cloud network" in the New York Times in
2001.
Or this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
The Cloud[13] is a metaphor for the Internet[14], derived from its
common depiction in network diagrams (or more generally components
which are managed by others) as a cloud outline[15].
The underlying concept dates back to 1960 when John McCarthy opined
that "computation may someday be organized as a public utility"
(indeed it shares characteristics with service bureaus which date
back to the 1960s) and the term The Cloud was already in commercial
use around the turn of the 21st century [16]. Cloud computing
solutions had started to appear on the market, though most of the
focus at this time was on Software as a service.
--
The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex
facts. Seek simplicity and distrust it.
-- Whitehead.
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