Microsoft and Lindows Settle Trademark Case

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.

Comments

Rock-Solid Business Plan

[ErichTheWebGuy]

1) start a company with some sort-of derivitave of 'Windows'
2) collect 20 million from Microsoft
3) ???
4) profit

Maybe SCO should change their name to something like "4-pane OS" or "glass-os" or something

Re:M$ puts out the cash!

[Hatta]

Sure they're willing to pay, but only if they're forced to. If you don't have the cash to put up a fight, you're fucked and don't get a dime. That's called barratry, and that's not fair.