Lindows ordered to drop name

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1. December 16, 2003 10:49 PM
   Curl said:
   What a crock...
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2. December 16, 2003 11:35 PM
   boeingbrj1 said:
   I think to understand the name Lindows you have to look at its founder.(marketing genius--ie mp3.com) While I agree that its easy to confuse a novice non computer literate user with windows and lindows, it is not easy to fool professionals like most of us logged into this forum. Lindows is about the best of both worlds, linux and windows without the legality proprietary pricing schemes. Microsoft should protect its patents. However, the real issue here is not the name but the fact that Bill Gates has a threat from a new Linux distro that is easy to use, safer than windows, and less costly out of the box. Infringement of trademark is Gates only avenue to discredit the Linux movement.I make my living as a windows systems admin. Today I want windows in a business enterprise setting(subject to change). But in the home its Lindows all the way. Windows is a word like cola. A cola is a coke and a pepsi is also. Windows is wintel, Lindows is Linux. Microsoft would be better off to spend its legal money on research and development for its service packs, patches and code problems. Linux is here to stay. Watch Novell, watch Lindows, watch RedHat.
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3. December 17, 2003 12:33 AM
   Vehementi said:
   [quote][i]Originally posted by boeingbrj1 [/i]I think to understand the name Lindows you have to look at its founder.(marketing genius--ie mp3.com) While I agree that its easy to confuse a novice non computer literate user with windows and lindows, it is not easy to fool professionals like most of us logged into this forum. Lindows is about the best of both worlds, linux and windows without the legality proprietary pricing schemes. Microsoft should protect its patents. However, the real issue here is not the name but the fact that Bill Gates has a threat from a new Linux distro that is easy to use, safer than windows, and less costly out of the box. Infringement of trademark is Gates only avenue to discredit the Linux movement.I make my living as a windows systems admin. Today I want windows in a business enterprise setting(subject to change). But in the home its Lindows all the way. Windows is a word like cola. A cola is a coke and a pepsi is also. Windows is wintel, Lindows is Linux. Microsoft would be better off to spend its legal money on research and development for its service packs, patches and code problems. Linux is here to stay. Watch Novell, watch Lindows, watch RedHat. [/quote] Microsoft scared of Lindows? Yeah right. Lindows will never take off as an OS, one reason of many being that it's not even marketed at all. I have never seen a Lindows ad, much less one that would make a customer conciously pick Lindows over Windows. People never hear about it. Then once they may hear some little snippet of it, they might ask someone who's learned in computers about it, and 9/10 would say don't bother, probably. Lindows needs to earn a name for itself and get itself a bigger user base. Before they do that, Microsoft or no Microsoft, they don't have a chance in the OS market. I wonder how Linux & Lindows are faring in starting to support 64bit?
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4. December 17, 2003 1:31 AM
   Nodsu said:
   Linux has always supported 64 bit processors.If you mean x86-64, then Linux was the first and is the only OS that properly supports it.
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5. December 17, 2003 9:02 AM
   MrGaribaldi said:
   [quote][i]Originally posted by Vehementi [/i]Microsoft scared of Lindows? Yeah right. Lindows will never take off as an OS, [b]one reason of many being that it's not even marketed at all. I have never seen a Lindows ad[/b], much less one that would make a customer conciously pick Lindows over Windows. People never hear about it. Then once they may hear some little snippet of it, they might ask someone who's learned in computers about it, and 9/10 would say don't bother, probably. [b]Lindows needs to earn a name for itself and get itself a bigger user base. [/b]Before they do that, Microsoft or no Microsoft, they don't have a chance in the OS market. [/quote] Well, why do you think MS suddenly took Lindows to court in Finland, Sweden and the netherlands?Because they were about to launch ad campaigns...Go read the swedish court brief I linked to at the register to see what I mean...And they've allready got pre-built computers with Lindows on it as an alternative to Windows... Granted, they don't yet have the sales of Windows, but at least they've started...
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