Lindows Lawsuit [LWN.net]

Lindows Lawsuit

Posted Feb 23, 2005 19:07 UTC (Wed) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Lindows Lawsuit by wdupre1
Parent article: How to Kill Linux (PC Magazine)

There were multiple lawsuits. MS looked like it would lose the US one so it
filed 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.

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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.