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Microsoft Loses Appeal To Shut Down LindowsOS

Posted by michael on from the stained-glass dept.

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.

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  1. Maybe M$ should just retaliate. . . by Limburgher · · Score: 5, Funny

    And name an OS Winux. . .

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    1. Re:Maybe M$ should just retaliate. . . by Bob+McCown · · Score: 3, Funny

      Be vewwy vewwy kwiet, Im pwogwamming in Winux....heheheheheheeh

    2. Re:Maybe M$ should just retaliate. . . by AnalogDiehard · · Score: 3, Funny
      Windows (win-doe's) n. : a 32 bit GUI shell written on top of a 16 bit operating system that was originally developed for an 8 bit personal computer with a 4 bit interrupt buss by a two bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.

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  2. Re:Boys, boys by zbuffered · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  3. I Never liked "Lindows" as a name by FearUncertaintyDoubt · · Score: 5, Funny
    It always sounded like some cheap Chinese knock-off to me. I think you want to sound like your quality is better than Windows...

    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.

  4. Re:unfair by Vicegrip · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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*

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  5. Mandrakesoft's Windows XP by HanzoSan · · Score: 3, Funny


    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

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  6. Windux by thumbtack · · Score: 3, Funny

    Windux.com