Julian Daich wrote: >> 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? > Nobody lost it. It was settled out of court.
>> Which, you have agree, is a very strange outcome, considering it was MS >> that sued Linspire, not vice versa. >> > Not so strange is Microsoft lost the case > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3080897910.html > I don't see any reference from that article to the lawsuit. Typically, when party A sues party B, the results can be: * A wins. B pays them or otherwise compensates them. * B wins. A gets nothing, and sometimes have to pay the defense expenses. And outcome where A sues B, and then winds up paying B a large sum of money is not very common, even with Microsoft. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= 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]
