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Microsoft and Lindows Settle Trademark Case

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. DDOS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Is /. being /.'ed??

    1. Re:DDOS? by Quirk · · 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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      Cohen
    2. Re:DDOS? by mattOzan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Me too--all day today.

  2. In America... by darkfus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Money always wins.

    df

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  3. Is it just me? by FyRE666 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... (OT) or is Slashdot incredibly slow at the moment??? Is there some little script kiddie DDOSing the site or something?

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  4. Moonlight Densetsu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gomen ne sunao ja nakute
    yume no naka nara ieru
    Shikou kairo wa short sunzen
    ima sugu aitai yo
    Nakitakunaru you na moonlight
    denwa mo dekinai midnight
    Datte junjou dou shiyou
    heart wa mangekyou
    tsuki no hikari ni michibikare
    Nando mo meguriau
    Seiza no matataki kazoe
    uranau koi no yukue
    onaji kuni ni umareta
    no miracle romance
    Shinjite iru no miracle romance

  5. translation for the curious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A product has the stickiness and is just like a soft rubber band with high contractility. It can be played to stick the remote objects. If it is thrown will full of your strength, it will spit out the tongue, which is like the genuine one from a frog.

    Inspite of it is sticky, it is never like the chewing guns which is glued tightly and cannot be separated.

    The key point for throwing far away is the same as the throwing of fish rod, i.e. To separate it with two hands, then release one hand and to throw out slowly with full of your strength.

    CAUTIONS:

    Never throw out the other person's hand. Inspite of its nontoxic, it cannot be eaten Its content has the oil, so if it touches on cloth, precious object, or wall, the stains will remain if you don't care about it.

  6. Is it over? The search session sure is! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic