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A Setback For Microsoft In Lindows Trademark Case
One Louder writes "Lindows.com is claiming victory in an important ruling in the Microsoft case - the judge ruled that the jury must only consider the genericness of the term 'windows' prior to the introduction of Microsoft's products, and that a term that is generic cannot be made ungeneric. Of course, in Microsoft's home turf, the story has a different spin. In other countries, they're telling judges that Lindows.com is an imminent threat requiring immediate injunctions, while in the United States, they're dragging the case out, perhaps for years, by appealing issues in a trial that hasn't even happened."
The ruling can be accessed through Lindows's page, right here
Read the yahoo article and the one posted at Seattlepi.com and the (mal)practices of our media shine through in the reporting of this ruling.
Pragmatism as an ideology is not particularly pragmatic in the long term. Keep it in mind when you dismiss Free Software
>> However, in the United States of America, Microsoft has never been able to trademark the term 'Windows' in any fashion.
Actually, both Microsoft and Windows are (R) registered trademarks of Microsoft within the United States. If you pull out your CD's you'll notice that both have an (R) by them...