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AOL: Lindows Is Misleading People

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-believe-the-hype dept.

jgeelan writes "According to this breaking news item, AOL has apparently said over the weekend that it is going to ask Lindows to change its promotional material after concluding that Lindows is misleading people into thinking that it has a strategic relationship with AOL."

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  1. And for 3 outta 3... by danamania · · Score: 5, Funny

    For their next trick, having pissed off Microsoft and AOL, Lindows will be renaming to iLindows, just to attract attention from Apple

    Lawyers - collect the set.

    a grrl & her server

  2. I wonder... by chegosaurus · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...just how hard is it to mislead potential AOL customers?

  3. And in other news by PD · · Score: 5, Funny

    Richard Stallman, director of the Free Software Foundation, wrote a 43 page letter to Lindows telling them why they should NOT call their operating system GNU/Lindows.

    --
    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  4. Hurm... by Jippy_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lindows is misleading people into thinking that it has a strategic relationship with AOL...

    This just in.. Company changes its name to AOLindows. Claims it's just an amazing coincidence.

    =-Jippy