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Lindows becomes Lindash
Daveh writes "The Register is reporting that 'The operating system Lindows is now available as Lin---s (pronounced: Lin-dash) in those countries where Microsoft has blocked the availability of the desktop Linux distribution. The new name complies with a recent Amsterdam court ruling (PDF), the San Diego company says.' There are a few new sites to reflect the name change, including Lin---s.com and Lindash.nl."
But that is the stupidest name I have ever heard... I hope someone named Linda sues them :)
"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
I guess that's one way to dash Microsoft's evil plan.
That's pretty f------ g--.
In a related story. Bill Gates has decided to rename Windows to be close to this product. The new proposed name is Balder-Dash (in honor of Steve Ballmer)
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
it's a bit slapdash
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the distro formerly known as LindowsOS would have been better.
changes name of of lindows to lind-hash.
BSD may be forced also to change it's name to BUD.
lysergically yours
Lin---s? I feel like I'm on some kind of game show.
I'd like to buy a vowel!
the names...
winix
uniwindows
linuows
microsnix
lindix
Next on Slashdot: Microsoft is suing all companies with products that start with a W.
Microsoft is now known as Micro---- (pronounced: Microdash). This is to settle a lesser known lawsuit with video game maker SquareSoft.
Lindows will now sue Microdash for trademark violations.
Will it ever end?
F---edcompany maybe?
As a double bonus is gets around any Microsoft-friendly internet censorware that has lindows.com blocked as "terrorist" or "hate speech".
-JoeShmoe
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-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
visionary [vi'sion'ar'y] adj 1. full of foresight: characterized by unusually acute foresight and imagination
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Good for Lindows. Too bad being a visionary is copyrighted by Microsoft.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Lin---s reminds me of this cartoon. Fill in the blanks? What else can we stick in those three dashes? I'd grep my /usr/dict/words if I wasn't in Windows.
They could've renamed it Linfox instead.
Might I suggest:
lin-XXX.com
Mod +5 Drunk
Microsoft sues dictionary.com for trademark infringement.
- (-) n.
An opening constructed in a wall or roof that functions to admit light or air to an enclosure and is often framed and spanned with glass mounted to permit opening and closing.
Should've changed it to Lackintosh.
! up job, boys--now put on your ^s, head down to the big \ at the local # |, and party 'till you see *s!
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
At least they didn't rename themselves GNU/Xenix.
*gong*
Because excessive hyphens are k-rad leet.
Duh.
Then it would become L-----s.
(Not that it's likely, of course. Heh.)
They should just have something that reminds users that their LINUX (obviously, symbolized by a penguin) is HOT (symbolized by fire), so i would recommend they call their product "Firebird".
No really, it was funny when i first thought about it.
Free as in mason.
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"Lindash. Lindash. I like it. It sounds fast. It will make your computer run quickly. And it's Linux, so you know it'll be stable.
"Yeah, I like Lindash a lot. And it sounds WAY better than Laguar or Lanther."
They should have renamed it "Lizzle" That would hizzle bizzle the shizzle.
Mrs. Dash people.
Dildos has a nice ring to it.
For one, they're already using S and O and neither have been crossed out. They've already missed 18 times. Unless they're counting every bone in the hangman's body, the game should be over.
Linuendows
Rmrember taht one?
My journal. Mainly about freedom.
Screw Mac and Microsoft and call it: iWin___s!!!!!!!
It would be a good homage to Homer Simpson too..
---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
Oh for crap's sake. Can't they just get the Mozilla people to rattle off a few dozen name candidates? Their projects change names with every CVS commit.
--riney
"Yes, this is horrible, this idea." - Samir
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Lindowpane. if anybody out there is old enough to get the LSD pun.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Worst. Name. Ever.
...you don't let engineers do your marketing.
from their news release on the topic ...
Copyright (C) 2004 Lindows.com, Inc. All rights reserved.
Lindows.com is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft Corporation in any way - in fact, we don't even really like them because they are suing us.
vodka, straight up, thank you!
lindashdashdashs maybe??
"It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful." - Anton LaVey
That would be: Dildows
It reads like some sort of Dilbert/Windows hybrid. I like it.
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
Lindows, the name, implies 100% compatibility with Windows programs.
I'm sorry, it does? Do pray explain how you're getting from "it sounds vaguely similar" to "it must be 100% compatible".
Are you surprised when you buy a packet of tacos and they don't taste of apple? After all, "tacos" is only one letter away from "MacOS", so they must be an Apple product!
It has a nice ring to it, and as far as I know... no one is marketing anything under the name longhorn.... right?
I can count to 1023 on my hands. Ask me about #132.
Many years ago, Apple was developing a new computer under the code name "Carl Sagan". Well, Carl Sagan learned of this and had his lawyers send a C&D letter to Apple. So Apple changed the code name to "Butt-Head Astronomer". A few details are here.
Maybe Lindows should be named Butt-Head CEO?From: http://www.bullyhill.com/history.asp
"Due to the wine Industry's desire for paranoia, greed, and lack of interest in the consumers health/security; dark forces moved secretly in concert illegally to destroy forever the Family's Purity of Purpose regarding its World Leadership in Wine; while others, in adjacent facilities, producing Wine, concentrated on Deception, and the Cult of Omission.
Predictably local Politicians, Religious icons, and Village Leaders sold our beautiful area down the river to Foreign invaders, and scavengers while our Family pulled the wagons around for the final Battle of Bully Hill. "
I think I this guy has all the qualifications of a Linux advocate!
(ITS A JOKE. LAUGH.)
The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us.
---" Dildos has a nice ring to it."--- More of a buzz than a ring...
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Good grief no! That should be GNU/Lindash! ;-)
It's a self-fufilling prophecy. When google gets it in it's database from slashdot, it will then exist :)
And then we'll have to refer to those household objects as casements, skylights, transoms, portholes, panes, windowpanes, or glass. (Yes, I got all those synonyms from M$ Word's "thesaurus", which interestingly did not provide "operating system" as a synonym for "windows" ;-)
"Obviously, I'm not an IBM computer any more than I'm an ashtray" (Bob Dylan)
Well, considering the Amsterdam ruling, surely lin# should be pronounced lin-hash?
Linsoft? Micronux TuxXP
I think the Wine folks should sue him. Just for the fun of it! ;-)
I would have just changed the name to "Doors".
Just say it like Homer: Lin-DOH!
(Does Fox have a trademark on "DOH"?)
One man's -1 Flamebait is another man's +5 Funny.
"Lintel"
This sounds like some sort of geek clone of a day-time talk show. Then that show sues. You just can't win!
How about "Lintiac, the sporty operating system with a bad water pump"?
Vote in November. You won't regret it.
I was banking on Mindows myself. *jab jab*
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Who is this Linda and her new shell?
"Lintel" -- isn't that a bean?
Among the obvious, it is an easy replace all within the code with the same amount of characters only replacing the last three.
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I wonder why Metallica (the band) sued Cover Girl over that chrome-colored lip polish that they nicknamed "metallica"?
Oh, probably Metallica fans got messed up when they went to Wal-Mart, and ended up walking out with lipstick instead of the Ride The Lightning album or something.
I can see the marketing slogan already:
"Lintel: We're above Windows"
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=lintel