From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 11:41: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88AF237B405 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:40:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost.ds.psu.edu [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g32Jema14311; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:40:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200204021940.g32Jema14311@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Lindows.Com In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2002 01:13:44 EST." <20020402011051.Y7003-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> From: dochawk@psu.edu Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 14:40:48 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG peter prodded, > Did you guys (and ladies) hear about this lately in the news? An > ex-employee of MP3.COM is founding a company called Lindows that will run > M$FT applications on a Linuxey OS; The company has already won the first of > probably many lawsuits about the same-name similarity and potential for > confusing consumers :-/ not quite. They did *not* win a lawsuit, but a pretrial ruling, in which MS sought to bar them from using the name. This still could occur at trial (but is unlikely). hawk -- Richard E. Hawkins, Asst. Prof. of Economics /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings. Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message