El mié, 29-11-2006 a las 15:15 +0200, Shachar Shemesh escribió: > A few years ago a new Linux distribution came along. It was called > "Lindows", and it promised to use Wine in order to run your existing > Windows applications on it. A couple of years later the company decided > that Wine was not getting there, and stopped sponsoring any more work on > it. Is that also an evil thing to do? > I personally do not so join Peter´s point of view, but¨ Lindows¨ was sued by Microsoft by using a name similar to¨ Windows¨ for a OS that runs Windows´ apps. I do not remember what exactly occurred with the trial, but¨ Lindows¨ became¨ Linspire¨ and they were granted by Microsoft with the rights to use or distribute codecs as the win32 package and other proprietary software within their distribution.
Julian > In conclusion, I think that this email is a bit paranoid. > > Peter > Shachar > > P.s. > Since some of the list's administrators have seemed to jump those guns > in the past, threatening actions, I would like to clarify that though I > think that Peter's email is paranoid, I have no reason to believe that > Peter himself is paranoid. > -- Julian Daich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]