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Lindows LawsuitLindows LawsuitPosted Feb 23, 2005 18:17 UTC (Wed) by wdupre1 (subscriber, #7498)In reply to: Typo by vblum Parent article: How to Kill Linux (PC Magazine)
I thought M$ won their case (in a European court) and forced Lindows to change their name to Linspire.
That being said, Dvorak doesn't seem to be very clueful. Most of Windows instability results from bad device drivers. Why would I want to use a Windows driver on Linux and thereby destabilize my system?
Secondly, the device driver models of the two OS'es differ. Thus, the Dvorak solution would require some sort of "thunk" layer which would reduce efficiency.
Also, there's this whole PR thing. Who, in their right mind, would buy MS Linux? This is the same company that brought no end of security misery on the whole world with virus after virus, worm after worm, patch after patch, monopolist lock-in, and EULA hell. Only Dilbert's management team would purchase MS-Linux!
Doh! Okay... Microsoft wins :-(
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Lindows Lawsuit Posted Feb 23, 2005 19:07 UTC (Wed) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] There were multiple lawsuits. MS looked like it would lose the US one so itfiled a bunch in Europe. Two of those looked like they might be a win for MS. The parties decided to settle rather than continue with the litigation. The settlement included some hefty fees paid by MS to Lindows as well a Lindows having to change its name.
Lindows Lawsuit Posted Feb 24, 2005 19:49 UTC (Thu) by dberkholz (subscriber, #23346) [Link] To be more specific, Lindows was arguing that "windows" was a commonly known name for GUIs before Microsoft trademarked "Windows," and it had pretty solid support for its case. In lieu of losing its right to keep everyone else from calling their GUI software "Windows" and generating a ton of confusion and probably money loss for MS, MS settled.
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