Microsoft and Lindows Settle Trademark Case

Posted by simoniker on Monday July 19, 2004 @06:40AM from the almost-over-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to an official press release hosted over at Yahoo, Microsoft and Lindows have settled their trademark case, and have announced: 'Over the next few months Lindows will cease using the term Lindows and transition to Linspire globally as our company name and primary identifier for our operating system product.' Although it's claimed: 'Terms of the settlement are confidential', ZDNet has an article filling in more details, including the fact: 'Microsoft will pay upstart Linux seller Lindows $20 million... [so that Lindows] will give up the Lindows name and assign related Web domains to Microsoft.'" We've previously covered the Microsoft and Lindows conflict in some detail.

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Re:DDOS? by Quirk · 2004-07-19 06:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I've been getting 500 / 503 since the maintenance was done a day or two ago. Maybe they're running with les bandwidth?

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Re:DDOS? by mattOzan · 2004-07-19 07:19 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Me too--all day today.