Yeah, M$ is claiming that they got -indows as a registered trademark. But, they tried to register "Windows" (by itself) as a registered trademark a few years back. But they got turned down because the word "windows" is a common English word. They cannot register word suffices as registered trademarks IMO.
Personally, who is going to confuse between "Windows" and "Lindows?" If one isn't paying attention, they may sound similar, but in print, they are unmistakingly different.
It's yet another abuse of their monopoly status. Just my two cents worth.
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Bill Medland wrote:
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:48:37 -0800 From: Bill Medland medbi01_1@accpac.com To: wine-devel@winehq.com Subject: Re: Lindows screenshots
"J.Brown (Ender/Amigo)" ender@enderboi.com wrote in message news:Pine.LNX.4.31.0201042213560.18672-100000@shaker.worfie.net...
Thisn is going to be a fun one - think of all the M$ patents and EULA's they are breaking :)
M$ might leave us alone - but a competative product looking that much like windows? No chanec.
Did you notice that M$ are already on the offensive; they are going to court over the name itself.
Bill