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X Windows
X Windows
Posted Mar 6, 2008 19:33 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137)In reply to: X Windows by PO8
Parent article: Red Hat's war on RHEL
> The problem with "X Windows" was that Microsoft explicitly warned the X developers back in the day that we might get sued if we used this terminology. Just knowing that makes me want to call it "X Windows." :-) I always thought "It's the X Window System, not X Windows!" was just a symptom of tight underpants. I didn't realize there was a legal reason for it.
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"windows" is generic
Posted Mar 6, 2008 21:19 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]
Actually, it looked like "windows" was going to be found to be generic before MSFT paid Lindows $20 million to start pretending it's a trademark. If you want to start a company whose name sounds like "windows", there's some potential money in it for you. (I write "Microsoft Windows" instead of just "Windows" to mean the product -- without the "Microsoft", the "windows" is generic.)