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- Thursday, March 11, 2004
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All your Words are Belong to Us. Lindows is a Linux based Operating System, with a name amusingly similar to Microsoft windows. Microsoft, unable to bear the thought of competition, has been suing them all over the place, claiming that they 'own' the word 'Windows'. Which is funny since 1) my apartment has 'windows' (south facing, lovely view..) and it was built before Microsoft was even founded. And 2) 'Windows' on computers have been around for a long time, 'X-Windows' interfaces on Unix predate Microsoft's adoption of the word windows by years. My Unix based FreeBSD server has 'X-Windows' for one of it's interfaces, it's still a very active technology.
When Microsoft tried to use the courts to destroy Lindows in the US, they failed.
So they went shopping worldwide for a more sympathetic court. And found one, not just sympathetic, but pathetic. In Amsterdam (where I live) unfortunately, so now Microsoft is trying to bully http://www.lindows.com/ out of existence. The Lindows CEO might be annoyingly brazen, but he's still putting up a good fight. Go for it Michael!, don't let our language fall into corporate hands..
