Lindows screenshots

[Derek J Witt]

Yeah, M$ is claiming that they got -indows as a registered trademark.
But, they tried to register "Windows" (by itself) as a registered
trademark a few years back. But they got turned down because the word
"windows" is a common English word.   They cannot register word suffices
as registered trademarks IMO.

Personally, who is going to confuse between "Windows" and "Lindows?"  If
one isn't paying attention, they may sound similar, but in print, they are
unmistakingly different.

It's  yet another abuse of their monopoly status. Just my two cents worth.

**  Derek J Witt                                              **
*   Email: mailto:djw at flinthills.com                           *
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Bill Medland wrote:

> Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:48:37 -0800
> From: Bill Medland <medbi01_1 at accpac.com>
> To: wine-devel at winehq.com
> Subject: Re: Lindows screenshots
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> "J.Brown (Ender/Amigo)" <ender at enderboi.com> wrote in message
> news:Pine.LNX.4.31.0201042213560.18672-100000 at shaker.worfie.net...
> > Thisn is going to be a fun one - think of all the M$ patents and EULA's
> > they are breaking :)
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> > M$ might leave us alone - but a competative product looking that much like
> > windows? No chanec.
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> Did you notice that M$ are already on the offensive; they are going to court
> over the name itself.
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