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Lindows Changes Name to 'Linspire'
Robert Nicholson writes "As previously covered, Lindows has decided to change its name thanks to Microsoft legal threats. Well it has just announced the new name - Linspire - clever, huh? There's a site at Linspire.com. The full story and the history behind it all are covered on Techworld."
In other news, the lawyers for Winspire Success Seminars get their pens ready...
The fine folks at Mozilla have decided to join forces with the Linspire team.
Please await *drumroll* LinFire 0.9 any day now..
I get it. It's like perspire ... only with Linux, right?
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"It came to me in a moment of Linspiration"
please change me. - sig
What a Linsipid name. In my opnion it sounds like the name of a cheesy fly by night telemarketing company.. or a group that sell motivational self-help tapes to desperate and simple-minded middle management types.
Not that I could do any better, I'm sure... but Linspire really sounds boring.
I mean, do I install it on my computer, park it in my driveway, or drink it from a fancy bottle?
:rolleyes:
Linspire. Whoever thought that up needs to get more linspired. Jeeeebus O'Reilly McChrist in a dead DeLorean.
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"Friends don't let friends use QWERTY"
It sounds like a Korean car. I'm going to spend the next hour cringing. Really surprised they didn't go with LinDOS (a previous candidate) or something with a modicum of coolness. I guess the company isn't shelling out big bucks for its marketing department.
I'm generally "Interesting," "Insightful," and even "Funny" here. What the hell happens to me at parties?
L'inspire? What is that, French? Aren't they the enemies or something now?
They might as well have saved us a step and just named it "Freedom Linux" before we do it for them.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."
they'd call their software the Linspire Linsuit.
L'inspire est le trademarke pour le Parlement du Francias! C'est et desitenement immedinantre! Alors!
... to try the new LDE with Lmail, Lword, Lonqueror and Lxmms. Not to forget Lozilla-Lirelox.
Lat least lhey lon't lave lo lange lilo's lame!
Solly, lounge got louse.
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>This led to the daft situation where Lindows renamed itself Lin---s, complete with new website. Microsoft, unbowed, then incredibly claimed that Lin---s was its trademark as well.
>This one just makes me say wow... Microsoft actually thingks they can claim the rights to "Lin---s"? Talk about power hungry.
The name still infringes on Microsofts rights. Notice that there are common characters in the names:
wINdowS
lINSpIre
I suspect this conflict will lead to product confusion and continued loss of sales by Microsoft until this evil Linspire changes its name to resolve the conflict.
Well, he's good at getting his competitors' legal departments to give him free publicity, but less good at turning that free publicity into an ongoing business. He'll be selling Hoca-Cola or Burger Monarch by next year.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
It took tremendous Linsight to come up with the name "Linspire". I find the whole story quite Linteresting. Thanks for the Linformative links.
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SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let MS chew on this it's a linspiracy.
My keyboads not woking popely.
I think a good name change would have been Winux...
I'm sure they were linspired by the linvoices from their legal department.
yeah
Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich, Malkovich Malkovich; Malkovich Microsoft, Microsoft Microsoft MicrosoftMicrosoft...
I wonder, is --- Chemical still in busines?
I don't subscribe to RMS's GNUtopian vision.
I vote for calling it "All Your Windows Are Belong to Us"
Lintimidated
Lipshits.
"Sometimes a woman is a kind of religion, she can save your soul & set you free from all your sins" - Bad Examples
Give users names like "Adobe photoshop" and they'll be much happier than "Adobe super-fire bird".
But "Adobe" itself is a "clever" name. Who would've thought that a company could be very successful when their name means "mud brick". It should really be called "Mud Brick Photshop" (or, taking your example, "Mud Brick Super-Fire Bird").
Acronyms Obfuscate
I think the new name is linteresting. It's linfective and very lintelligent. This little lincident with the itigation shows that great minds are not lidle for ong. With Microsoft linsisting they have lintellectual property rights on '---' any other countermeasure will ikely prove to be lineffective.
Just as long as Linus doesn't come along and claim he owns the letter 'L' - which is hardly going to happen. He and Bill Gates weren't born on the same day, or come from the same mold.
But let's not have any lillusions: Microsoft are a lillegal monopoly. They bode lill for the rest of the Linternet.
I have to say...my preferred choice of new name was "porthole" ....damn microsoft and their nonsense.