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LindowsOS.com Email Lists Collected For MS Suit
Over at the LindowsOS website is a message from company chief Michael Robertson, who advises readers that, in the course of discovery for the ongoing lawsuit instigated by Microsoft against Lindows.com, the company was "compelled to disclose your email address to Microsoft." The email addresses aren't just those who have submitted product names with a connection to "Windows", but rather "everyone who had
submitted their address asking to be signed up for the Lindows.com mailing
list since we turned on the website," according to email from Robertson. He adds: "The information which Microsoft
received in the list was name, email address and physical address. It was
not just people that posted to our forum, but basically every address for
every person that we had collected." (Note: If you'd like to contribute to the list of "Windows" products, it would be helpful to include more than just a product name photocopy -- e.g. a company name, URL, or photocopied manual.).Update by HeUnique: And here is Michael Robertson comment.
In some states, it is LEGAL to shoot anyone who steps on your property uninvited.
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Give the usual MicroSquish business ethics, you will be signed up for "product information and news" for everything from X-10 to porn. Good luck, your mail box will soon look like my AOL account. I wonder if M$ have anything to do with that as well, there can'nt be that many dumb asses who buy a penis enarger sales kit. It would not be beyond the company that pays to have dead people write congressmen. Such is the stuff of software ownership and "aggesive" marketing.
As an internal email from M$ once told, there were two conditions for a new NT product that interfaced with Unix, that it make money for M$ and that it kill Unix. Needless to say, that project useful project did not happen.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
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I live under the bridge, in a pile of feces.
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I am not trolling here.
If the government fucks with Microsoft, how can Lindows complain that Microsoft is fucking with them?
Microsoft will take out however they fucking well choose. That's why they're the greatest company in the world.
Now that last paragraph, that was a troll. Thank you.
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Actually, it's not X Windows, but the X Window System. And actually, Microsoft Windows predates it -- Windows was released in 1983, and the X Window System's first commercial release was in 1986.
I'd guess that most product names that could help Lindows have already been submitted. Really, the name "Lindows" is pretty much doomed at this point.
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Uhh, front page of the site says first commercial release - 1986, Windows 1.0 was out in '85.
But you forget about the special place for Microsoft under the law. It can use "Window" without infringing on "X Window System," it can even use "X" (for X-box) without infringing on "X Window System" or causing the slightest amount of confusion about what "X programming" is.
Uhh, you're stretching the truth a bit. I don't think you can place a trademark on a letter of the alphabet. I understand that you're a LinuxZealot®, and that you need to lie. But this isn't appropriate. See, little white lies are appropriate at other times, like, say, when you catch your father jacking off in a gay men's bath house. But I digress. Point is that you are showing the maturity of a 2-year-old.
Yes, we can. We have one moron. YOU!!!!!
As soon as You realize there is a way not need to reboot system every hour You'll know why linux is a choice. So many distros, YES, AND WE LIKE IT, SOMEDAY EVEN m... like You will understand.
Actually, MS could never make use of these mailing lists.
Inclusion of an email address in a plethora of such addresses is s security mechanism known as chaffing (see Rivest et al).
Any attempt to extract an individual email address from such a welter runs afoul o0f the DMCA and would land Bill Gates in the penitentiary.
I know I for one could use a Windows emulator for Windows !!!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!!
Jesus, it's almost as bad as people talking about Slashdot's web traffic after 9/11. I mean, hell, the NYT gets more traffic EVERY DAY than Slashdot gets IN A MONTH, and both NYT and the WP stayed up for practially all of 9/11. And CNN! CNN is to NYT as NYT is to Slashdot -- Slashdot would fall over if give 1% of CNN's traffic.
So what does this mean? It means that most Slashdotters have either never run a real website or are talking out their ass in hopes of being "funny." (My guess is "both.") It's not "funny." Is it funny to say, "gee, I hope that throwing a feather at the Empire State Building doesn't knock it over?" NO. It's just STUPID. And that's a good analogy to suggesting that Slashdot can take down Microsoft.com.
Fucking uneducated amateur losers.
-- The_Messenger, IPID-banned for bringing the TRUTH to you undeserving mental midget wannabe-hackers.
As to the actual trademark issue, Microsoft calls their products "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" and we call ours "LindowsOS". There is no confusion.
There _is_ confusion, between 'Windows' and 'Lindows', as the majority of the crowd will call both products. Ask an average joe in the street if he knows the OS 'Windows' and he probably will say 'yes'. It's also not up to YOU to decide that there is NO confusion. the 'dows' in your name IS refering to Windows, not to Dow Jones or anything else.
And please, stop the yadda yadda about 'if you want to help extend their monopoly'... you try to make a living out of the hard work of others as you also did with MP3.com. If there is ONE person that should be ashamed, it should be you.
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