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LinSpire LPhoto and LSongs: bring on the lawsuits!
Sir Joltalot writes "Over at OSNews they're covering the newly-renamed LinSpire's LSongs and LPhoto apps. Take a look at those screenshots, and you'll notice a striking resemblence to Apple's iTunes and iPhoto. Take a look at this flash presentation and you'll see that LPhoto and iPhoto are almost exactly alike. They look like nifty apps, to be sure, but how long will they last? I would have thought LinSpire might have learned from the whole Lindows name fiasco..."
Look at how ugly that interface is. Apple should sue just over that!
It's either on the beat or off the beat, it's that easy.
I moderate therefore I rule!
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LSongs has precisely 2 letters in common iTunes. Have Apple now trademarked 'n' and 's', or is this supposed to infringe their existing patent on 'bAd pUnctuation' and 'rAndom cApitalisation'?
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Is the Lmusic module protected by FairLay DRM? How long before the LayFair lawsuits and LPods?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
So now after angering MS, they are waking up the undead lawyers from Apple?
I wish them the best of luck, they'll need it.
This is the sig that says NI (again)
Should change his name to Gill Bates or Job Stevens...
Lindows Inc. announced the opening of a wholly owned subsidiary, named Lapple.
Its flagship product, the iLMLaLc, will be released April 30th.
The CEO of Lapple, Lsteve Ljobs, have been quoted as saying "We really don't understand all this fuss about ripping off names! Macintosh and Apple are both names that have seen extensive use before Apple Inc, and their claims are foundless."
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Can somebody show me the similarity, other than the large song display?
That little eye in the corner (is that what it is?) kinda looks like the button in the top right hand corner of iTunes. Kinda. If you squint.
Actually that eye is kinda creepy. And the general app doesn't look anywhere near as slick as iTunes. And what's with the letter "L"? Now it sounds Spanish: "I have me el tunes and el photo..."
Who said Freedom was Fair?
Linspire, I'd like you to meet Lawyer, Lawsuit, Layoffs, and finally Languish.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
50 comments and nobody is bitchgriping about Macromedia Flash, the state-of-the-art Internet multimedia platform.
There should have been at least one thread about "why can't we just go back to gopher and list elements again?" or "what's wrong with 8-bit GIFs?"
Amazing.
Business isn't willing to pay for products, innovation and careers, so we get brands, mortgage commercials and layoffs.
Yup and iTune looks like crap compared to Winamp.
Linspire Loffice?
or for the hard core gamer
Lake 2
Well, once you're done pissing off Microsoft, you might as well go try to piss off Apple too.
Ever wonder why Linux vendors copy Windows/Mac designs, and not the other way around? I mean, you don't see Steve Jobs holding a press conference to announce iPine, do you?
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs today announced that the company has launched a lawsuit claiming German firm SuSE LINUX AG are in breach of the company's patent on random capitalisation in product names. "Random capitalisation is an exciting and innovative use of letters pioneered by NeXT and the rights to this technology are now owned by Apple Inc" said Jobs as he promised to vigorously pursue this action.
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Now that's just annoying. it's like having a reatrded little brother who keeps following you around and swearing at strangers.
In autoracing, they call this drafting. You hang out behind the race leader, letting him burn up his fuel from wind resistance. Then, when you get to the final lap, you hang back, hammer on the accelerator, build up a nice top speed in his wake and pull out ahead of him.
Of course, I don't think Linspire has a good enough engine to pass anybody. What's their big innovation: selling cheap PCs at Walmart.com? I think it's obvious that segment's not in Apple's target demographic. Somehow, I think dropping $2000 on a computer with a smooth aluminum shell isn't probable for somebody who insists on paying $1.88 instead of $1.99 for Doritos.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Then again, he could be breaking new ground.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
Okay, the Apple fanboy bullshit has to stop when you know the biography of their font.
But does it seem to anyone else like Lindows is the total opposite of SCO? SCO tried to sue when they have no chance of winning, while Lindows seems to be actively trying to be sued by people they have chance of beating...
My brain hurts.
"Respect" has never paid the bills.
Maybe he was thinking of beef?"Respect" does not allow you to drive a convertible.
"Respect" is not for dinner.
Don't these names just sound stupid? The leading 'L' just doesn't flow like the 'i' does. I think it has to do with the consonant sound.
LPhoto... ellfoto... elf oto?
LSongs... ellsongs... else ongs?
If they were going to make a cheesy ripoff of the Apple names, they could have at least thought up more pleasing sounding names.
Is a protected fair use of the original work. I think Apple is out of luck here.