Posted by: Anonymous
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on October 29, 2007 02:24 AM
"Am I the only Linux-using human being on the planet that remembers when Microsoft forced then-titled distro Lindows (now Linspire) to change its name due to copyright issues in the US?"
You remember wrong. The issue was trademark, not copyright. And though MS did try to force Lindows to change its' name by suing over the trademark, it became clear during the course of the lawsuit that "Windows" as a trademark applied to computers was going to be thrown out (computer windows were in use long before MS started "Windows"). When losing their trademark became probable, MS and Lindows reached an out-of-court settlement where MS dropped their suit and paid Lindows $$$,$$$,$$$ to change their name.
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Re: ::sigh:: Can't Linux be Linux
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 75.57.101.199] on October 29, 2007 02:24 AMYou remember wrong. The issue was trademark, not copyright. And though MS did try to force Lindows to change its' name by suing over the trademark, it became clear during the course of the lawsuit that "Windows" as a trademark applied to computers was going to be thrown out (computer windows were in use long before MS started "Windows"). When losing their trademark became probable, MS and Lindows reached an out-of-court settlement where MS dropped their suit and paid Lindows $$$,$$$,$$$ to change their name.
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