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Oh, jeez...
Microsoft...GET A PR FIRM. IMMEDIATELY. Or, just START LISTENING to the one you've got.

OK, here's what's gonna happen: by making all this fuss and commotion, Microsoft will draw attention to Lindows all the more, and it will suddenly be fashionable among the entire planet's teenage geek population to install Lindows. You know this crowd: the kids with their Marilyn Manson tees and stocking caps and skateboards who like to collect 'Magic: The Gathering' trading cards and write indecipherable things in DayGlo spray paint on your garage door in the dead of night (come to think of it, they're not all that different from you and I when we were 15). This whole deal will create another underground cultural phase among the kids, who will view installing Lindows as the moral equivalent to flipping off Mom and Dad via flipping off Mom and Dad's Computer Industry proxy, Bill Gates. Lindows sales will skyrocket as a result of the cultural backlash, especially in Europe, where Americans Who Are Wealthy and Powerful aren't perceived very fondly at the moment.

All this draconian frenzy on Microsoft's part concerning an insignificant little startup like Lindows will do nothing but blow up in Microsoft's face, and any decent PR person will advise them so. If they would just ignore it, chances are that Lindows would simply dry up and blow away on its own in a year or two, without significantly denting Redmond's sales.
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Oh, jeez...  Yen_z | 12/08/03
How about Winux?  John Zern | 12/08/03
Hmmm...not sure I could see it.  Yen_z | 12/08/03
not generic terminology  myndlon@... | 12/09/03
What a GREAT idea!!  OhMyGosh | 12/09/03
Many care even less about Linux  StorageGuru | 12/09/03
Monopoly Alert!  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
regardless  stephen732@... | 12/08/03
Clarification here.  Yen_z | 12/09/03
Such tact  Mack DaNife | 12/09/03
Lindows suks  Suicida| | 12/09/03
quality doesn't matter  myndlon@... | 12/09/03
so does your spelling  Lunpa | 12/09/03
"distributions"  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
not enough people bought xp-  cybershoplifter | 12/09/03
cart and horse  myndlon@... | 12/09/03
Haha  Clete2 | 12/09/03
glutton  stephen732@... | 12/09/03
misconception..  ryusen | 12/09/03
Im hungry  illdesign | 12/08/03
More like McDonalds suing somebody for the name "Wamburgures"  DonnieBoy | 12/08/03
how true  stephen732@... | 12/08/03
perhaps not.  jonbob | 12/09/03
The problem is this  voska | 12/09/03
Trademarks  Zooomy | 12/09/03
If they were the first to use Windows for overlapping windows on a computer  DonnieBoy | 12/09/03
history repeats itself  stephen732@... | 12/09/03
Let's see..  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Better analogy: someone creates a "MacDonalds" but says it doesn't infrige  marksashton | 12/09/03
Heres another way of looking at this !  NT Admin | 12/09/03
your remark...  stephen732@... | 12/09/03
(NT) Change Ford to Yugo :o)  Jack-Booted EULA | 12/09/03
One problem  Masamune | 12/09/03
exactly...  stephen732@... | 12/09/03
Not really  voska | 12/09/03
Sorry Dude  NT Admin | 12/09/03
Bad headline  notbilln | 12/08/03
They changed it to "Microsoft-Lindows battle expands in Europe"  DonnieBoy | 12/08/03
Meanwhile, TalkBack still can't get it right!  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Just another episode of....  Rick_K | 12/08/03
Exactly  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/08/03
"Fair and Balanced"  doctormoriarty | 12/09/03
What's in a name?  SylvesterCologne | 12/09/03
ROSES!  Lunpa | 12/09/03
Actually  berck | 12/09/03
Dang, thought $un was the only one  FilledOut | 12/08/03
come on  JWatson77 | 12/08/03
Wow, more free publicity for Lindows. Well, they do have to pay lawyers.  DonnieBoy | 12/08/03
Winux sounds good too  John Zern | 12/08/03
Maybe Microsoft should...  John Le'Brecage | 12/09/03
Lindows is going to crush Microsoft into the floor! It will become..  GRindinAxTaRupy | 12/08/03
"Microsoft has no issue with them"??  Robert Carnegie | 12/09/03
I thought  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Lindows or LindowsOS?  El.Gato@... | 12/09/03
Windows, not Lindows, will be changing it's name  TheSlumlord | 12/09/03
Linux: Windows for Linux. I can see the ads now.  DonnieBoy | 12/09/03
You obviously know little about trademarks  marksashton | 12/09/03
Microsoft has been moving away from Windows  voska | 12/09/03
RE: You obviously know little about trademarks  MicroSucks | 01/06/04
Lindows  berck | 12/09/03
David and Goliath?  NemesisNL | 12/09/03
But if you ask NoAx  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Change name to Lindowx  tero_t_vaananen@... | 12/09/03
Change name to Redmond Apple  FilledOut | 12/09/03
Stop selling it?!?  Michael Kelly | 12/09/03
You are mistaken  marksashton | 12/09/03
Bull Droppings!  Rick_K | 12/09/03
You are deluded or intentionally lying  marksashton | 12/10/03
Microsoft can't compete... They just sue  shawkins | 12/09/03
Gimme a break  marksashton | 12/09/03
I'd agree with you, if not for the way MS is reacting  Michael Kelly | 12/09/03
MS is only asking that they use a different name  marksashton | 12/09/03
No, they ARE requesting a "cease&desist" on sales, too  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Are you on crack?  Rick_K | 12/09/03
Are you on heroin?  marksashton | 12/10/03
what kind of a fool...  ryusen | 12/09/03
RE: Gimme a break  MicroSucks | 01/06/04
They can't have it all !  NT Admin | 12/09/03
Robertson/Lindows = Bottom Feeder  marksashton | 12/09/03
Microsoft does not own the English language.  DonnieBoy | 12/09/03
Speaking of stealing  AbsolutelyNot | 12/09/03
Gates/Microsoft = Bottom Feeder  Rick_K | 12/09/03
Whose rights are we talking about here?  Masamune | 12/09/03
Our's  Lunpa | 12/09/03
Whiners  StorageGuru | 12/09/03
Breaking News  jasonp@... | 12/09/03
Breaking news: you're a doof  marksashton | 12/09/03
as i asked before...  ryusen | 12/09/03
Re: Breaking news: you're a doof  Rick_K | 12/09/03
And remember how Lindows started...  Anton Philidor | 12/09/03
Good post - one clarification  marksashton | 12/10/03
Why is MS so afraid of competition? If they have the best OS, whats to fear  xunil skcor | 12/10/03

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