Microsoft wins Lindows fight in the Netherlands

Julio Franco · Jan 29, 2004

Resellers of the Linux distribution Lindows in the Netherlands were ordered today to stop selling the product. Amsterdam judge Rullmann agreed with Microsoft that in many ways Lindows is "profiting from the success of Windows" by infringing the Beast of Redmond's trademarks.

Read more: The Register.

Masque · Jan 29, 2004

That's really a shame. Hell, it's only a name and far enough from the original. Hell, people know what Windows is. :blackeye:

Mictlantecuhtli · Jan 29, 2004

Infringing their trademarks? Last time I checked, Lindows.com™ was advertizing LindowsOS™, which is Lindows.com's trademark.

agissi · Jan 29, 2004

Thats poo [MS should not have won].

MoRulez · Feb 2, 2004

Damn you, European courts! I'd have thought the European courts would have been a little bit more lenient to Lindows, with Europeans being more open to open-source software, oh well....

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