Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:40:48 -0500 From: dochawk@psu.edu To: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Lindows.Com Message-ID: <200204021940.g32Jema14311@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2002 01:13:44 EST." <20020402011051.Y7003-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>
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peter prodded, > Did you guys (and ladies) hear about this lately in the news? An > ex-employee of MP3.COM is founding a company called Lindows that will run > M$FT applications on a Linuxey OS; The company has already won the first of > probably many lawsuits about the same-name similarity and potential for > confusing consumers :-/ not quite. They did *not* win a lawsuit, but a pretrial ruling, in which MS sought to bar them from using the name. This still could occur at trial (but is unlikely). hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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