Robber Baron Foiled, Again!!
You've heard of Linux, right? It's an operating system, like Windoze [*crash*] Unix, or Apple OSX. Stable, inexpensive, cheap. Open source, too, so there are many, many programs by independent developers available, as well as as all the standards. Their mascot is this little fellow:
Apparently the success of this system, and its spinoff, "Lindows" which runs desktops and laptops, is such a threat to certain people [yes, you, Billy Boy] that they are threatening small companies and filing lawsuits to prevent the sale and very existence of Lindows! This is a part of M$'s ongoing efforts to trademark the term "Windows" which has been in use since before Little Billy the Would-Be Robber Baron knew how to byte a bit.
The Court also ruled [2.04] that once a word is declared generic it would continue to be generic, informing Microsoft that no amount of marketing around a generic word changes the generic state of the word.
More here.
the part where she connects the dots . . .
So now I'm wonderin' just who is responsible for this little time waster --- hmmmmm?
The words on the rock are "1978 REINHOLD + YETI" Any cognoscente got the backstory there?
Lindows.com [check it out -- lots of cheap & free stuff]
Lin---s.com, the site that had to be invented for the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Swened to buy Lindows products because M$ has blocked its availability in those countries. [can you say "chickensh!t"?]
UPDATE: PC Club has apparently felt the lash of M$ -- it sells Lindows laptops but has added this little line at the bottom of the page: "PC Club recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP"
[are they being forced to be ...er, "PC" ?]
Just wait until Msoft is ready to release their Office programs for Lindows. Then they’ll embrace the operating system. They did the same kinds of things versus Mac.
Posted by newspimp on 02/26/04 at 05:39 AM
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