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Ruling Clears Way For Lindows Trial
shystershep writes "Various sources are reporting that Microsoft's appeal in the Lindows trademark infringement suit was rejected by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. At issue was the trial judge's decision [PDF link] to 'instruct a jury to consider only whether 'windows' was a generic term before November 1985, when the first version of Microsoft's Windows was released.' This is significant because a generic mark receives no trademark protection, and the ruling that the jury must make that determination based only on the use of the term before 1985 is a major blow to Microsoft."
It's only an empty victory. MS has billions in cash reserves in addition to special protection from the Bush Administration because of their millions in secret (illegal) contributions to the White House. Lindows has no chance of survival. Look around, what's going on is Truly Scary.
I don't remember who broke the story, but Michael Moore and others have mentioned it. Which you would know if you could read. It makes you wonder how many software failures resulting in death BushGates are covering up.
When did the term "X-Windows" come into play?
About the time the first Windows weenie saw the X-Window System and decided to shorten it to "X-Windows".Do you have ESP?