Brady Forrest: We've sent a followup letter to Donagh Kiernan, agreeing that IT@Cork can use the Web 2.0 name this year. While we stand by the principle that we need to protect our "Web 2.0" mark from unauthorized use in the context of conferences, we apologize for the way we initially handled the issue with IT@Cork.
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/05/controversy_about_our_web_20_s.html
Randy: Lightning quick and elegant response. Congrats to the O'Reilly team for handling a bad situation in the proper manner. We all make mistakes, but only the biggest of men, admit to it and apologize promptly.
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What has Tim Berners-Lee claimed as his own of the World Wide Web? You'd think he'd have numerous claims, being that he actually invented it. O'Reilly didn't invent anything, he just put a successful tag on something. There's a reason why some people are revered and made Knights...
