Alpha blogger silenced himself
Source: saunderslog.com
Bloggers reactions to Jan Geirnaert’s decision to kill his Skype-Gadgets and Skype-Watch blogs are a little over the top, in my opinion. Jan didn’t get a cease-and-desist letter from Skype, or from the firm they use for domain name cases. He got a polite refusal from a lawyer when he asked if he could put the Skype name (as part of his domain name) on chopsticks. Moreover, unless Skype was willing to extend him a license for that name, no other reply was possible or should have been expected.
Chilling effect? Not really. Expected reaction? For sure! In fact, it was more like a slap on the hand than a "heavy gun".
