Lindows Legal Challenge

pphrdza was one of several readers who sent in the latest on the Lindows front - it's a Ny Times (Free reg. blah blah) article entitled Glass Panes and Software. Not a whole lot of new information - more around the legal challenge blah blah.

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Who here has legs

[snitty]

Microsoft has more a leg to stand on in this trial than Lindows, as much as I hate to say it. Lindows has the potential to create confusion in the marketplace. Granted this isn't too easy, but it would theorectically be possible for someone to walk into CompUSA looking for Windows and pick up a Lindows box. Apple took the eOne off the shelf for the same reason.

Lindows on the other hand can't really go though with this and have it work. If Microsoft had to give up the Windows trademark, so would Apple with Macintosh, as it is a type of apple (with slight capitalization differences) and so would Conpaqs Armada, as that is a fleet of ships. Fords Expedition as it is a quest of a type. If there is a trade mark on Perl. I personally would have touble living in a world where every product had a non-dictionary name. It would begin sounding like a D&D campaign.

the name is awfully bad.

[rebelcool]

So you take some software thats designed to look and feel like windows, tell people it works like windows, call it 'Lindows' (say it in the same breath as 'windows', they even sound alike because of the softness of L and W)

Oh, and then market it to people who don't know much about computers. Do you think they'll really know the difference when it sounds like you're trying to intentionally confuse them?

And then complain when you get sued. Idiots.