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It turns out that there may be a happy (from the open point of view) ending to Dell's attempt to trademark cloud computing, which we covered two weeks ago. Whether it was all the publicity that the Patent & Trademark Office's original decision got, or whether someone there simply took a second look at things and understood the issues, it appears that they're on the way to denying the application after all.

There's been a lot of talk about cloud computing lately, including some excellent crystal-ball reading from our parent blog GigaOM. But it's an essay from the ever-interesting Tim O'Reilly that brings together the cloud and the future of open source - and some of his conclusions may distress those who are firmly convinced that open source licenses are the only way forward.