Julian Daich wrote: > 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. The incident you refer to happened over two years after the one I'm referring to, which is the reason I find it hard to believe there is any relation between the two. Lindow's decision to forsake Wine was purely economic. > I do not remember what exactly occurred with the > trial, The suing party (MS) paid the defendants (Lindows) to change their name, understanding that if the trial does go forward MS will lose their trademark. > 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. > Which, you have agree, is a very strange outcome, considering it was MS that sued Linspire, not vice versa. > Julian > Shachar
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