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LindowsOS Marches On
alphabet26 writes "I just received Lindow's 2001 Wrap-up e-mail, and it looks like they're still forging ahead regardless of the lawsuit Microsoft filed against them. In the update, CEO Michael Robertson included a letter in response addressed to Bill Gates, and also some screenshots of what the new LindowsOS will look like. He predicts the retail version will be available in the early months of 2002."
So can anyone prove that these aren't just screenshots of Windows 2000 with a stardock skin?
I don't care how great a product this is, I hope this Robertson company goes down in flames and he moves on to something else.
I was around on mp3.com when the first RIAA attacks came. I actually beleived his rhetoric of fighting for the movement.
Then he sold out.
He settled. This was bad.
To make it worse, I just visited mp3.com after about a year of not caring. I was spurned by a thread on /. to get back into listening to indie music. Now, half of the fsck'ing songs on the top 40 are RIAA crap! WTF?!?
Yeah, he can pursue money in any way he chooses. But please, Robertson, drop the pretense of actually caring about the causes yo trumpet to the media.
This entire Lindows thing smells of getting VC, giving yourself a huge bonus, then bailing once the courts order you into compliance.
Piss off.
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Look, more power to the guy for trying to create this product. I think it would be incredibly valuable if he pulls it off.
But the freaking name is obviously a rip-off of Windows. There is no question that it would create market confusion. For him to claim otherwise is just nonsense. After all, why call it Lindows if you're not trying to piggyback on Windows?
Look Robertson, just change the name. This is not rocket science. Or is this just some ploy to get free press?
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.