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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."
"Lindowz" .... it IS a change!
"Windows"... why not go all the way?
"Bill Gates is a Jerk"
"Unix". No one would ever bother a company over anything to do with Linux
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
What does this mean for Windex?
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that at least Sweden is neutral! :-)
Just change the name to Winux!
What about "Gates"? They could have a slogan like "Why stare through the Windows if you can walk through the Gates..."
-- Qu'est-ce que la propriété intellectuelle? It is thought control.
In other news, Ford has recently demanded that Microsoft stop using the name "Explorer", as in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer. Ford cites the 1990 introduction of the Explorer as evidence that they had the name first.
The many reliability and safety problems with Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer cause confusion among Ford Explorer customers who are themselves accustomed to these traits, a Ford spokesman said Friday.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
Sheesh.... Before you know it someone will patent point & click online shopping.... ;)
Surely "The operating system formerly known as [CENSORED]".
Using HTML in email is like putting sound effects on your phone calls. Just say <strong>no</strong>.
Now about the lawsuit-proof name "Darlsux" ?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
They should concentrate on marketing their product as a decent OS and not a cheap and inferior copy of windows.
How did the goals of Michael Robertson's Lindows become the same as those of Linus Torvalds' Linux? As far as I can tell, a "cheap and inferior copy of Windows" is exactly what Lindows wants to be... it's kind of like the Simpsons episode where Homer's looking for a TV at an outlet mall: "I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny."
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"Shades" We've got your Windows covered.
Thewe's one pwobwem howevew, and that's that "Winux" sounds wike its the opewating system that Ewmew Fudd's hackew bwothew uses.
In another court action today, the US District Court in Austin handed down an injunction against MS for using the code name longhorn, requested by the University of Texas. The school nickname is the longhorns and the schools mascot is a drugged neutered bull named Bevo, who wanders aimlessly about and craps all day.
UT Students were getting confused since both MS longhorn and Bevo's BM are both Stinking piles of crap. Further more UT football players, trained to lay down and play dead at the site of BEVO (witness the Arkansas and OU games) were now getting confused and doing the same thing in their computer lab. This has resulted in half the team being ineligilble for the Poulan-weedeater-holiday-trailmix bowl.
UT coach Mack "Roscoe P. Coltrane" brown had the following statement:
"IIII Know ol Bill Gates really did'nt mean any harm to us, but since the wind kept shifting directions the players were confused which crap there were smelling longhorn crap, Bevo crap or my crap". "I really thought we could keep them focused on thier school work, as soon as that Windows Start up screen came on, there they went, locked up, feel straight over, with that same glassy eyed look they get in the cotton bowl every year."
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.
Lindows was also ordered to stop crashing so bloody much, as that is obviously another attempt to copy the winning Microsoft formula.
Said a Microsoft spokesman, "Stealing our good name is one thing, but stealing our functionality is clearly another. Our regular crashes are part of the "Microsoft Advantage"(TM), and our astronomically flukey market share is evidence enough that the people want lots of crashes, and we aim to deliver. We give the people what they want. If Lindows starts copying our patented "Crash-n-Burn Technology(TM)", we are liable to lose marketshare, and that is completely unacceptable and is punishable by immediate and lethal MS military action. We WILL defend ourselves against encroachments on our instability monopoly. Word. Oh, yeah, if those Apple guys are listening, I hear they had a security hole or two last week. Better watch it Steve, I don't remember you licensing insecurity from us...."
Apple quickly backed off by patching their security holes as ordered by Microsoft, in what was an obvious attempt to pacify Microsoft's legal department and rectify what Apple still claims was an "accident".
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
How about...
1.) Licrosoft OS
2.) Lolaris
3.) LIX
4.) LIRIX
6.) LPUX
7.) LOS
8.) Lovell
Gates? He's not even Number One anymore! I suggest Lindows rename itself to "Ballmerix", at least they'd get the porn addict's vote. And their new slogan, of course, "developers developers give it up for me!!!!!"
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
they call it Rindows
(which sounds more like Windows, incidentally)
The cradle of Linux was standing in Santa Cruz, according to Darl McBride...
We do? I apologise unreservedly. I'll try harder.
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Change the name to Widows because that's what your partner will feel like after you fall in love with your new non-Windows computer.
Not to sound too nationalistic, but Europe is much bigger than the US - it's just more disorganised, and hamstrung by the French. ;-)
:)
Check the facts.
The US: 3,717,900 Square Miles
The EU: 1,249,000 Square Miles
The EU outnumbers the population of the US by about 90 million. We have about 1/4 the population density.
Well maybe they should change the name
Remember when Apple named one of it's new machines "Butt headed Astronomer" ?
Lets see Lgatessucks or maybe Lbilltheschmuck
or maybe in honor of how fast Microsoft updates its software
they could call the new lindows simply "Late"
I'm confused...
Am I still allowed to use the traditional name for those holes in the side of my house (the ones with the glass in them) or must I think of a new name for them as well...?
Portals, or something like that.
To highlight that Gates is a free OS, we could add you wouldn't have to pay the Bill to use it...
-- Qu'est-ce que la propriété intellectuelle? It is thought control.
The previously anonymous Lynn doe's name was changed to Jane doe's, the work Lynn tells us was mostly done by John Doe's programming skills. John has been a programmer since back before the abacus and even the sand table's of egypt, he has long since learned to remain out standing in his fields, and so he was unreachable for comment. Some crazy woman at Geico, said, they lowered their colestorol, in an exclusive we found an empty 6 pack of rootie tootie glass's handcrafted out of recycled broken pieces of her last known address's windows.
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Seriously though. Does anyone actually believe Lindows vs. Windows raised some confusion?! From the 8 year old kids in Wallmart to the Grey White Blue hair's who we asking questions about Lindows SCSI support and hardware modems for their Grandson's iptables firewall project.
in that BBC news caster "world coming to an end" accent . .
Last time we interview Wallmart's electronics section, and could hear nothing but screaming about "where are the mandrake disks! I don't want a damn XP upgrade!" Store workers were busy picking up wrecked and trampled windows XP boxen off the ground while customers were tossing the XP boxen out of the way. Lynn doe's last comment was, "Duck! Lookout! I think it is swarm. Hit the dirt!" All while a winner with dough, wearing sandals was busy formatting WallMart's display computer and pocketing the covers from all the XP manuals laying on the ground. Police arrived and shortly threw lynn doe out on her bum. Out in the parking lot citizens were saying that next year wallmork will have thirty-nine foot blow up "Tux" Penguins just in time for christmas decorating.
The problem with Wine is that is sounds like "Whine" and will therefore be associated with the Microsoft brand. I can see a trademark dispute here...
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I have determined that you are a twit.
The name is "Krishna" not "Crishna".
Twit.
ScottKin
I don't give a rat's behind about "karma" here or anywhere else. Don't like what I have to say here? Deal with it!
"Why stare through the Windows if you can walk through 135"
interesting point. I'm still waiting to see if I get sued for having windows in my house.
Spread the RC luvin'
Licrosoft Windows!
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
Heres a name that I like.... Doors - "its easier to walk through a door than it is to jump through a window".
Have you paid microsoft for them? $300 a window. I hope you called and registered them... Don't even THINK of modding them with curtains, either!
indeed! especially since they already got the trademark for winCE!
if (!signature) { throw std::runtime_error("No sig!"); }
"It's worse. Shell Oil recently sued tOILet makers for copyright infringement. WC is the trademark for Windows Calendar, so we may get int trouble finding that damn Gazw7a."
Oh please. If Microsoft released their next server OS as "Winux", you wouldn't be cracking jokes like that.
"Derp de derp."
... from now on, our distribution will be known as 'Windux'.
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"Uh oh, what's that glass thing between you and the outside? A window? If there's more than one, you have windows.... Sorry M$, you picked a damn bad word to claim to trademark. Sue Mr. Webster while you're at it."
What's that fruit you're eating? Apple! What's that light coming from outside? The Sun! Who's that chick from the Matrix? The Oracle! Who's your date from last weekend? Palm!
"Derp de derp."
"No because WINE isn't a copycat of a Microsoft Product who's name differs by only one letter."
Gee, I wonder if it was common sense that prevented Mozilla from using the name Linternet Explorer.
"Derp de derp."
This just in! Microsoft has obtained an injunction against the US. A court in Finland has ordered the United States Government to cease the
publication of the Declaration of Independence.
Apparently, the original text uses the phrase "All men are endowed by their Creator...", and the word "endowed" sounds a lot like part of Windows.
It is expected lawyers will seek injunctive relief against the makers of "No-Doze" as soon as they can figure out who makes that stuff.
Lindeaux
??? that can't be taken?