On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 16:23:28 -0600 (CST), Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Jerry Weihrauch wrote: > > > Link to eWeek article: > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1624907,00.asp > > > Interesting. So Microsoft agreed to pay $20 million to Lindows and > Lindows changed its name to Linspire. Lindows won its case both in the US > courts and in Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg), but had lost > initially in Benelux. Isn't it fair to say that Microsoft tried to use > the courts to force Lindows to change its name and when that didn't work, > Microsoft bought the name? Lindows was a fine name. More of the usual > anti-competitive Microsoft behavior. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ Myself I'm thinking of starting a new os called Pindows. I could use 20 million. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list