El mié, 29-11-2006 a las 16:40 +0200, Shachar Shemesh escribió: > 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. With¨ paid¨ do you mean that MS lost the case?
> > 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 > -- 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]
