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.

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