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Microsoft Loses Appeal To Shut Down LindowsOS
alphabet26 writes "LindowsOS announced yesterday that a Seattle Judge has denied Microsoft's appeal to shut them down, citing that Microsoft's own use of evidence helped determined "Windows" is a generic word. Lindows.com has posted the judge's seven page ruling on their website." Microsoft is trying get an injunction to prevent Lindows from using the name while the trial proceeds, and the judge has denied them, twice. Lindows could still lose the case in the end, though.
And name an OS Winux. . .
You are not the customer.
obviously
This is the word of a troll. Lindows is not obviously in the wrong. Lindows may be in the wrong. You think Lindows is in the wrong.
And if you want to wave your college degree around, do it at one of your hoity-toity extended-pinky tea parties. Don't think that it makes you intelligent, or original.
Synergy is your friend
Homer:[gasps] Look at these low, low prices on famous brand-name electronics!
Bart: Don't be a sap, Dad. These are just crappy knock-offs.
Homer: Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.
"Lindows was originally a Microsoft product, and Linux was just a spin-off of that ..."
pbfft *sound of coffee spraying over desk*
Microsoft needs to recruit slightly more informed people to post on Slashdot. This current lot they've hired is rather abysmal.
*shuffles off to find a napkin*
Do not spread "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" over the internet, thank you.
mandrake(in very small letters)SOFT
Windows XP service pack.
Have commercials telling users its an upgrade from "WindowS"
Demonstrate it in a mall, using a theme which looks exactly like XP.
99.9 percent of all users wont know the diffrence, it will be like coke vs pepsi.
What needs to be done, is marketing, thats what Linux is currently missing, With Windows as a generic name, all the Marketing Microsoft put into it, can be transfered to Linux distros
If you use Linux, please help development of Autopac
!Windoze (i.e Not Windows...)
Well... It is Friday afterall. I'll spend today polishing my
Light Saber for the battle this weekend...
There is another new addition to MS English XP.
window
n.
8 - Computer Science. A smurf like looking rectangular area on the screen that displays Microsoft's own file or message dependently of the other areas of the screen.
The real dictionary term is here.
Windux.com
finally! i have a simple name i can legally use for those clear things i use to look outside. i was really getting tired of saying, "take a look out the transparent viewing portal" or "please close the invisible atmospheric circulation inhibitor."
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Gates mimicked Jobs.
;)
There's a funny story about Apple with their project code named Sagan - when the Carl Sagan people complained and threatened legal action (over an internal code name, not a product) they changed the name to "Butt Headed Astronomer". Being a product name, of course, they wouldn't solve anything by calling it "Asshole Software Architect OS". Hmm, maybe ASAOS would work, with only rumors about what it means
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