Does Best Buy own the rights to the word "geek"? Surely not, but it's starting to look as if they think they do. I'm not one for big corporations myself. It's my long held belief that the bigger you are the less you actually care about the customer, or employees for that matter, and the more it becomes about huge money.But Best Buy seems to be having it's way with all that big money- "Best Buy sent a legal notice - a C&D letter - to Newegg back on the 9th of June saying that the company had "infringed on its "valuable trademark rights"
newegg's slogan is "Millions of geeks must be right!" & "Take it from a geek"
Really? All this over a century's old word that originally meant fool, crazy, (One who geeks out [that's mine])
You have to wonder, how long will it be before Anonymous and/or Lulzsec step in?
Maybe Best Buy is just trying to re-install the true meaning of the word buy geeking out with power.
Just because they're the biggest doesn't mean they're the best. And you can take a little power from them buy shopping other places such as:
Tiger direct / CompUSA
Newegg
Geeks.com
Rent a geek
Speak with a geek
Also there is this very funny video at the expense of Geek Squad:
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