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Microsoft wins round in name case

Posted by malebolgia on 07 April 2004 - 19:25 · 45 comments & 751 views

Lindows, a firm which markets a user-friendly version of the Linux operating system, has bowed to Microsoft in a lengthy dispute over its name.

The company said it would no longer be using the Lindows name - which Microsoft says undermines its Windows brand - outside the US. Lindows has faced a barrage of legal challenges from Microsoft over the past three years. It is already prevented from using its name in much of Europe.

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Courts in Sweden, Finland and the Netherlands have ruled against the Lindows brand. And Microsoft wants Dutch authorities to fine the firm for not blocking internet users in the Benelux countries from accessing is website. Microsoft has filed similar action against Lindows in France, Spain, Canada and Mexico, as well as the US. Lindows has now conceded that it cannot keep the brand going outside the US, and says it will unveil a new international identity next week.

News source: BBC News

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(7 replies) #1 Posted by werejag on 07 Apr 2004 - 19:28: congrates microsoft you have sinked to new lows.

(2 replies) #2 Posted by LordHatrus on 07 Apr 2004 - 19:36: Lindows has said it is probably going with LINDOS, "because the W is the problem here"

(9 replies) #3 Posted by akassebaum on 07 Apr 2004 - 19:48: Microsoft has a right to protect the product name. Michael Robertson totally ripped the name by switching out a letter. They might as well rename it to Bapple to piss off another company and infringe on their copyrights! Lindows is so inferior to Windows in the regard to ease of use among new users who are trying to break into the Linux based world. Linux will not win the battle of the OS if they do not make it easier to install programs. Non Linux enthusiasts do not have the time or the know how to figure out how to compile a program even thought there are packaging programs. There are still dependencies that need have already been compiled into the OS. As much as I would like to move on away from buggy Microsoft programs, it does all the tricks I need it to do. Thanks Billy Gates!!!!

#4 Posted by blackice912 on 07 Apr 2004 - 20:13: I love news about how Lindows loses -- yet again Gets a nice laugh out ot me.
(Not a MS fanboy, just one who dislikes Lindows and their actions)

#5 Posted by BTallack on 07 Apr 2004 - 20:48: Did Lindows ever actually think they had a chance?

#6 Posted by yoaliens3000 on 07 Apr 2004 - 21:00: lindows saw is coming. its not surprising.

(1 reply) #7 Posted by tapo on 07 Apr 2004 - 22:02: It seems Lindows may very well be a nice OS, but I absolutely hate their marketing department. They like to bash and make fun of Microsoft. Not in a good way, but in a way that makes them look like retards.

You think they'd actually come up with their own name instead of blatiently ripping off the name Windows.

(5 replies) #8 Posted by norseman on 07 Apr 2004 - 23:50: syscrash2k, go stick your ./configure; make; make install in your pengiun's ass. My mom or sister would never want to go through nor try to understand. Why? Not because they are not intelligent, because they don't want their computer to operate like that. They would rather use the mouse for computer commands than the keyboard, and the keyboard for their typing programs, emails, essays.. etc Some do not like to type over and over and over.

#9 Posted by altermind on 08 Apr 2004 - 01:50: lindows, windows.... same to me

(2 replies) #10 Posted by werejag on 08 Apr 2004 - 05:46

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Last week Judge Coughenour denied our request to block Microsoft's international legal barrage against Lindows.com. Two years ago Microsoft tried to stop Lindows in a U.S. court, but they were denied. Recently, they started piling on lawsuits from around the world attempting to achieve the same result. At the same time, Microsoft is publicly demanding that the EU respect the U.S. court actions concerning their monopolistic behavior and not impose their own rulings. Microsoft hypocritically has no such respect for the U.S. court decision which determined we can operate under the term Lindows pending a final resolution of the litigation.

this is why im standing up for lindows even thou i didnt like the os personally

#10.1 Posted by STV on 08 Apr 2004 - 09:57: plain and simple, lindows was called lindows because of windows and this is why microsoft may not respect the US court's decision on this matter. I would have to go with microsoft on this one.

STV

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#10.2 Posted by werejag on 09 Apr 2004 - 00:06: going with the flock

---werejag

(1 reply) #11 Posted by DOGglee on 08 Apr 2004 - 10:04: microsoft rules!!!

#12 Posted by dougkinzinger on 08 Apr 2004 - 11:51: Lindows New Slogan:

Lindows. "We're about as ghey as the chick with the eyeball jewelry."

(1 reply) #13 Posted by darksoul on 08 Apr 2004 - 13:53: it is plan and simple lindows is named such to emphasize it's "similarity" to MS Windows and possibly dupe a few people into buying lindows thinking they are getting MS Windows cause they don't know better.

(1 reply) #14 Posted by insurektion on 08 Apr 2004 - 14:02: Oh yes everyone bitch that since Microsoft is a huge company it should have to take sh*t like a blatent ripoff of its OS Name.<sarcasm> I think Lindows is completely original and well though out name. Damn Microsoft always stepping on the little man. </sarcasm>
Why can't anyone here think rationally, Im pretty sure if I made my own (or modified an existing) OS and called in Winsux, or Wicrosoft Mindows PX. I would be infringing on Microsofts market name. Debian, Gentoo, or Mandrake names however resmble nothing of Microsofts creation. Therefore they arent getting forced to change their name.

Also MS isnt even suing Lindows they are merely asking (or forcing now) them to change their name.

(1 reply) #15 Posted by WS togermano on 08 Apr 2004 - 19:03: thank god i got aol9.0 optimised

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