Lindows Ordered To Stop Using Lindows Name 922
TheSpoom writes "InfoWorld reports that Lindows, a distribution of Linux and other software designed to emulate Windows, has been ordered to drop their name after Microsoft won a preliminary injunction yesterday from judges in Finland and Sweden."
Suggested New Names (Score:3, Funny)
"Lindowz" .... it IS a change!
"Windows"... why not go all the way?
"Bill Gates is a Jerk"
"Unix". No one would ever bother a company over anything to do with Linux
Wind... (Score:3, Funny)
Damn... and I thought (Score:2, Funny)
Easy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:New names for Lindows... (Score:5, Funny)
In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, Ford has recently demanded that Microsoft stop using the name "Explorer", as in Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer. Ford cites the 1990 introduction of the Explorer as evidence that they had the name first.
The many reliability and safety problems with Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer cause confusion among Ford Explorer customers who are themselves accustomed to these traits, a Ford spokesman said Friday.
Re:Copyright/Trademark Extension? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:New names for Lindows... (Score:3, Funny)
Surely "The operating system formerly known as [CENSORED]".
Darlsux (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Wrong impression (Score:5, Funny)
They should concentrate on marketing their product as a decent OS and not a cheap and inferior copy of windows.
How did the goals of Michael Robertson's Lindows become the same as those of Linus Torvalds' Linux? As far as I can tell, a "cheap and inferior copy of Windows" is exactly what Lindows wants to be... it's kind of like the Simpsons episode where Homer's looking for a TV at an outlet mall: "I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it. And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny."
Re:New names for Lindows... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:i sorta agree (Score:5, Funny)
Thewe's one pwobwem howevew, and that's that "Winux" sounds wike its the opewating system that Ewmew Fudd's hackew bwothew uses.
Longhorn (Score:5, Funny)
UT Students were getting confused since both MS longhorn and Bevo's BM are both Stinking piles of crap. Further more UT football players, trained to lay down and play dead at the site of BEVO (witness the Arkansas and OU games) were now getting confused and doing the same thing in their computer lab. This has resulted in half the team being ineligilble for the Poulan-weedeater-holiday-trailmix bowl.
UT coach Mack "Roscoe P. Coltrane" brown had the following statement:
"IIII Know ol Bill Gates really did'nt mean any harm to us, but since the wind kept shifting directions the players were confused which crap there were smelling longhorn crap, Bevo crap or my crap". "I really thought we could keep them focused on thier school work, as soon as that Windows Start up screen came on, there they went, locked up, feel straight over, with that same glassy eyed look they get in the cotton bowl every year."
Drop the name? That's not all! (Score:5, Funny)
Said a Microsoft spokesman, "Stealing our good name is one thing, but stealing our functionality is clearly another. Our regular crashes are part of the "Microsoft Advantage"(TM), and our astronomically flukey market share is evidence enough that the people want lots of crashes, and we aim to deliver. We give the people what they want. If Lindows starts copying our patented "Crash-n-Burn Technology(TM)", we are liable to lose marketshare, and that is completely unacceptable and is punishable by immediate and lethal MS military action. We WILL defend ourselves against encroachments on our instability monopoly. Word. Oh, yeah, if those Apple guys are listening, I hear they had a security hole or two last week. Better watch it Steve, I don't remember you licensing insecurity from us...."
Apple quickly backed off by patching their security holes as ordered by Microsoft, in what was an obvious attempt to pacify Microsoft's legal department and rectify what Apple still claims was an "accident".
Re:Suggested New Names (Score:1, Funny)
The slogan can be;
Don't peer through Windows.
Open Gates...
Some name suggestions (Score:1, Funny)
1.) Licrosoft OS
2.) Lolaris
3.) LIX
4.) LIRIX
6.) LPUX
7.) LOS
8.) Lovell
Re:New names for Lindows... (Score:2, Funny)
in China... (Score:1, Funny)
(which sounds more like Windows, incidentally)
Re:+5, Ironic (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Suggested New Names (Score:2, Funny)
Europe has a relatively low rate of piracy? (Score:5, Funny)
We do? I apologise unreservedly. I'll try harder.
No problem (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Doesn't stop them (Score:1, Funny)
Check the facts [eurunion.org].
The US: 3,717,900 Square Miles
The EU: 1,249,000 Square Miles
The EU outnumbers the population of the US by about 90 million. We have about 1/4 the population density.
New names for Lindows (Score:1, Funny)
Remember when Apple named one of it's new machines "Butt headed Astronomer" ?
Lets see Lgatessucks or maybe Lbilltheschmuck
or maybe in honor of how fast Microsoft updates its software
they could call the new lindows simply "Late"
Re:New names for Lindows... (Score:2, Funny)
Am I still allowed to use the traditional name for those holes in the side of my house (the ones with the glass in them) or must I think of a new name for them as well...?
Portals, or something like that.
Re:New names for Lindows... (Score:2, Funny)
In other news #2 (Score:1, Funny)
Seriously though. Does anyone actually believe Lindows vs. Windows raised some confusion?! From the 8 year old kids in Wallmart to the Grey White Blue hair's who we asking questions about Lindows SCSI support and hardware modems for their Grandson's iptables firewall project.
in that BBC news caster "world coming to an end" accent . .
Last time we interview Wallmart's electronics section, and could hear nothing but screaming about "where are the mandrake disks! I don't want a damn XP upgrade!" Store workers were busy picking up wrecked and trampled windows XP boxen off the ground while customers were tossing the XP boxen out of the way. Lynn doe's last comment was, "Duck! Lookout! I think it is swarm. Hit the dirt!" All while a winner with dough, wearing sandals was busy formatting WallMart's display computer and pocketing the covers from all the XP manuals laying on the ground. Police arrived and shortly threw lynn doe out on her bum. Out in the parking lot citizens were saying that next year wallmork will have thirty-nine foot blow up "Tux" Penguins just in time for christmas decorating.
Re:Well... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:fuckindows (Score:1, Funny)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=88892&cid=7
I have determined that you are a twit.
The name is "Krishna" not "Crishna".
Twit.
ScottKin
Re:New names for Lindows... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)
Dell? Like "Farmer in the Dell"? Dell is common? Wow.... I guess my slashdot eduMacation wasn't as good as I thought...
Re:In Other News... (Score:2, Funny)
Are we saying that it is ok to trademark words that you don't know? That would seem to open up a world of options.
Work-around (Score:5, Funny)
Licrosoft Windows!
Possible Name? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:In Other News... (Score:4, Funny)
Wasn't Dell the Guy's last name? Could he sue all the other members of his family for trademark infringement? Of course, he parents probably have prior art....
Re:Well... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:3, Funny)
Oh please. If Microsoft released their next server OS as "Winux", you wouldn't be cracking jokes like that.
Ok, no problem guys... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Winux would infringe another trademark... (Score:4, Funny)
What's that fruit you're eating? Apple! What's that light coming from outside? The Sun! Who's that chick from the Matrix? The Oracle! Who's your date from last weekend? Palm!
Re:Well... (Score:3, Funny)
Gee, I wonder if it was common sense that prevented Mozilla from using the name Linternet Explorer.
More news from court (Score:2, Funny)
publication of the Declaration of Independence.
Apparently, the original text uses the phrase "All men are endowed by their Creator...", and the word "endowed" sounds a lot like part of Windows.
It is expected lawyers will seek injunctive relief against the makers of "No-Doze" as soon as they can figure out who makes that stuff.
And here it is (Score:2, Funny)
What about Swindows? (Score:1, Funny)