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Lindows Ordered To Stop Using Lindows Name
TheSpoom writes "InfoWorld reports that Lindows, a distribution of Linux and other software designed to emulate Windows, has been ordered to drop their name after Microsoft won a preliminary injunction yesterday from judges in Finland and Sweden."
Hmm...
500 x $100 seems to total up to $50,000.00 rather than $50.
Yes, I am aware of the european usage of the decimal point in place of the more proper comma. But...I couldn't help myself.
Sue me.
No gods, no demons, and no masters. Secular Humanism!
Don't do business in those little insignificant countries. If their judges are that stupid, offer the product under a different name there, and everyone else gets lindows.
I'm surprised that judges in other countries are more ignorant than the US ones. I would -expect- a US judge to be stupid...
-- I am. Therefore, I think!
Tony, you are an *idiot*.
Just thought I'd let you know that.
Lindows does not violate the trademark of Windows. Do your research. If you knew anything about trademark law then you would not make such bold assumptions. Whether this fight is to squash Linux does not matter. Enjoy your Windows servers you idiot.
The point to focus on is not that one name is almost the same as some other corporate name, it's that one person in Finland or Sweden or Shitholistan thinks that they can change the behavior of millions of people. Then they believe that they have the authority to enforce this because they have some form of legal position in their own country.
This is like some fundamentalist judge in Iran ordering the entire alchool industry in the world to shut down because it is forbidden by the Koran, and actually being taken seriously in areas outside the range of his private army.
Has Microsoft also registered the words "Crashes", "Exploits" and "Vulnerabilities" then?