The “Save the Netbooks” campaign is fighting the impending trademark threat from Psion Teklogix, who have given until the end of March 2009 to cease using the term citing trademarks relating to a line of products discontinued over 5 years ago.

For more information visit http://www.savethenetbooks.com/.

PS You might not be saying that Psion doesn't have a right to protect their “valid” trademark, but plenty of us are.

I use it now and then.

For the longest time I waited to have “RON” (Risc OS for Netbook) avalable so that I could run the now defunct Acorn Risc OS software on it and for me that would have been a perfect solution.

I admit to a wry smile everytime I hear the term “Netbook”, claiming to those few people who are remotely interested that I have the “real Netbook”. It seems that my claims are to be validted.

Good luck to Psion. Physically the Psion Netbook is great, with an excellent keyboard and an instant-on ability which is far preferable to waiting for ages for MS XP, or whatever, to boot up.

I recall it was expensive at the time – something in the high hundreds of pounds. Howver it was later taken up by a Canadin firm as a sort of rugged PDA type device.

Searching the web will find it.