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Anonymous   07-20-2004 at 11:04:34 PM

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As we know Microsoft sued Lindows for its name being too close to
Microsoft's Windows. It turns out that Lindows in turn challenged
Microsoft's right to use the term Windows, since it is generic. So the
result? Microsoft ended up paying Lindows $20 million and Lindows will
change its name to Linspire. Good way to make cash from Microsoft: Microsoft
sues you, then it pays you. I doubt Microsoft will try to challenge
infringements on its Windows name anymore, because it might just lose it
next time. :-)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?t [...] c_nf/25932

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cjt   07-20-2004 at 11:31:01 PM
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Yousuf Khan wrote:

> As we know Microsoft sued Lindows for its name being too close to
> Microsoft's Windows. It turns out that Lindows in turn challenged
> Microsoft's right to use the term Windows, since it is generic. So the
> result? Microsoft ended up paying Lindows $20 million and Lindows will
> change its name to Linspire. Good way to make cash from Microsoft: Microsoft
> sues you, then it pays you. I doubt Microsoft will try to challenge
> infringements on its Windows name anymore, because it might just lose it
> next time. :-)
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?t [...] c_nf/25932
>
> Yousuf Khan
>

It's tempting.

Rindows, anyone?

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Anonymous   07-21-2004 at 12:51:43 AM
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CJT wrote:
> Yousuf Khan wrote:
>
>> As we know Microsoft sued Lindows for its name being too close to
>> Microsoft's Windows. It turns out that Lindows in turn challenged
>> Microsoft's right to use the term Windows, since it is generic. So the
>> result? Microsoft ended up paying Lindows $20 million and Lindows will
>> change its name to Linspire. Good way to make cash from Microsoft:
>> Microsoft
>> sues you, then it pays you. I doubt Microsoft will try to challenge
>> infringements on its Windows name anymore, because it might just lose it
>> next time. :-)
>>
>> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?t [...] c_nf/25932
>>
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>>
>
> It's tempting.
>
> Rindows, anyone?
>

Go for the throat : "My Windows".

Then ask them where they got the "WIMP" phrase from that their
marketroids liked to use at the time.

Cheers,
Rupert

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Anonymous   07-21-2004 at 12:00:30 AM
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CJT wrote:
> It's tempting.
>
> Rindows, anyone?

Is that the Chinese version of Lindows? :-)

Linspire should really push the envelope and call its next OS, Linspire
Windows. :-)

Microsoft might only be able to enforce the trademark to the name "MS
Windows" or "Microsoft Windows" from now on, but not simply just "Windows".
Linspire could contend that the "Linspire" in "Linspire Windows" makes it
different than "MS Windows". This one might be a little harder to get away
with though. :-)

Yousuf Khan

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Anonymous   07-21-2004 at 02:05:42 AM
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"CJT" <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:40FD56D5.2010506@prodigy.net...
> Yousuf Khan wrote:
>
>> As we know Microsoft sued Lindows for its name being too close to
>> Microsoft's Windows. It turns out that Lindows in turn challenged
>> Microsoft's right to use the term Windows, since it is generic. So the
>> result? Microsoft ended up paying Lindows $20 million and Lindows will
>> change its name to Linspire. Good way to make cash from Microsoft:
>> Microsoft
>> sues you, then it pays you. I doubt Microsoft will try to challenge
>> infringements on its Windows name anymore, because it might just lose it
>> next time. :-)
>>
>> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?t [...] c_nf/25932
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>>
>
> It's tempting.
>
> Rindows, anyone?


"ViewPorts".

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Anonymous   07-21-2004 at 02:30:56 AM
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"Rupert Pigott" <roo@try-removing-this.darkboong.demon.co.uk> wrote in
message news:1090345904.96441@teapot.planet.gong...

> Then ask them where they got the "WIMP" phrase from that their
> marketroids liked to use at the time.
>

Windows - Icons - Menus - Pointers IIRC it comes from Xerox PARC in the
early '80s

Norm

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Anonymous   07-21-2004 at 03:27:33 AM
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Hank Oredson wrote:
> "ViewPorts".

Portholes?

Yousuf Khan

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Anonymous   07-21-2004 at 05:28:52 AM
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Norm Dresner wrote:
> "Rupert Pigott" <roo@try-removing-this.darkboong.demon.co.uk> wrote in
> message news:1090345904.96441@teapot.planet.gong...
>
>
>>Then ask them where they got the "WIMP" phrase from that their
>>marketroids liked to use at the time.
>>
>
>
> Windows - Icons - Menus - Pointers IIRC it comes from Xerox PARC in the
> early '80s

.... Precisely. However it was widely applied. I even saw it used to
describe systems for the BBC Micro. :)

Cheers,
Rupert

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Anonymous   07-21-2004 at 08:35:51 AM
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Norm Dresner wrote:
> "Rupert Pigott" <roo@try-removing-this.darkboong.demon.co.uk> wrote in
> message news:1090345904.96441@teapot.planet.gong...
>
>
>>Then ask them where they got the "WIMP" phrase from that their
>>marketroids liked to use at the time.
>>
>
>
> Windows - Icons - Menus - Pointers IIRC it comes from Xerox PARC in the
> early '80s

I don't think they try to claim it, it's a common technical term like rpm.


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Anonymous   07-22-2004 at 06:31:29 AM
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 02:35:51 GMT, Bill Davidsen
<davidsen@darkstar.prodigy.com> wrote:

>Norm Dresner wrote:
>> "Rupert Pigott" <roo@try-removing-this.darkboong.demon.co.uk> wrote in
>> message news:1090345904.96441@teapot.planet.gong...
>>
>>
>>>Then ask them where they got the "WIMP" phrase from that their
>>>marketroids liked to use at the time.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Windows - Icons - Menus - Pointers IIRC it comes from Xerox PARC in the
>> early '80s
>
>I don't think they try to claim it, it's a common technical term like rpm.

Uhh, they already claimed Windows... and anything that sounds like it?
Lawyers need to get rich too you know.;-) Take a look here:
http://www.microsoft.com/library/t [...] n-us.mspx.
Autoroute®?... I wonder what the French think of that?
Bookshelf®?... absurd!
Entourage®?... not only the French here!
Exhibition(TM)?
Links® in relation to a golf game? What *will* the R&A think?
....... and on and on.

Remember this is the company that tried to steal Java and proprietarize it.

Rgds, George Macdonald

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Anonymous   07-23-2004 at 07:00:22 AM
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:31:01 +0000, CJT wrote:

> Rindows, anyone?

I like Windoz (tm), but if you are really tired of
crawling in the windows your computer, why not
install doors (tm)?

- ----------------------------------------------

Though you see through me,
I am not a window,
And what you see
is only a reflection of yourself.

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jk   07-23-2004 at 03:01:05 PM
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Doors? That doesn't sound so intriguing. A more hitech sounding name
is portals. How about openings?

hu-mi yu wrote:

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> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:31:01 +0000, CJT wrote:
>
> > Rindows, anyone?
>
> I like Windoz (tm), but if you are really tired of
> crawling in the windows your computer, why not
> install doors (tm)?
>
> - ----------------------------------------------
>
> Though you see through me,
> I am not a window,
> And what you see
> is only a reflection of yourself.
>
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jk   07-23-2004 at 03:05:07 PM
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How about an operating system called periscopes?

hu-mi yu wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:31:01 +0000, CJT wrote:
>
> > Rindows, anyone?
>
> I like Windoz (tm), but if you are really tired of
> crawling in the windows your computer, why not
> install doors (tm)?
>
> - ----------------------------------------------
>
> Though you see through me,
> I am not a window,
> And what you see
> is only a reflection of yourself.
>
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Anonymous   07-23-2004 at 07:56:43 PM
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"JK" <JK9821@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:41010C11.1F5B0306@netscape.net...
> Doors? That doesn't sound so intriguing. A more hitech sounding name
> is portals. How about openings?

Doors doesn't sound completely out of place.

Instead of playing one of M$'s jingles when Doors starts up, it could be
replaced with a pirated MP3 of "People Are Strange" and fit right in with
the digit heads. If the user changes their desktop color scheme, it could be
followed with the musical snip "I see a red door and I want to paint it
black ..."

The possibilities just boggle the mynd.

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Anonymous   07-23-2004 at 07:58:26 PM
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"orifices"

"JK" <JK9821@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:41010C11.1F5B0306@netscape.net...
> Doors? That doesn't sound so intriguing. A more hitech sounding name
> is portals. How about openings?
>
> hu-mi yu wrote:
>
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:31:01 +0000, CJT wrote:
> >
> > > Rindows, anyone?
> >
> > I like Windoz (tm), but if you are really tired of
> > crawling in the windows your computer, why not
> > install doors (tm)?
> >
> > - ----------------------------------------------
> >
> > Though you see through me,
> > I am not a window,
> > And what you see
> > is only a reflection of yourself.
> >
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Anonymous   07-23-2004 at 08:11:07 PM
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"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:6Q8Mc.12576$Qu5.1101@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> "orifices"

And instead of the terms "GPF", "crash" or "BSOD", it would be called
"wrecked 'em".

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Anonymous   07-23-2004 at 09:44:19 PM
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In article <6Q8Mc.12576$Qu5.1101@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
Alexander Grigoriev <alegr@earthlink.net> writes
>"orifices"
>
"Arseholes"
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cjt   07-24-2004 at 12:03:30 AM
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Alexander Grigoriev wrote:

> "orifices"

"sphincters"

>
> "JK" <JK9821@netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:41010C11.1F5B0306@netscape.net...
>
>>Doors? That doesn't sound so intriguing. A more hitech sounding name
>>is portals. How about openings?
>>
>>hu-mi yu wrote:
>>
>>
>>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>Hash: SHA1
>>>
>>>On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:31:01 +0000, CJT wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Rindows, anyone?
>>>
>>>I like Windoz (tm), but if you are really tired of
>>>crawling in the windows your computer, why not
>>>install doors (tm)?
>>>
>>>- ----------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>Though you see through me,
>>>I am not a window,
>>>And what you see
>>>is only a reflection of yourself.
>>>
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>>>Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
>>>
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>>>3rIjzZDexsm5w0/UV4VUGu4=
>>>=nDqk
>>>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>
>
>


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Anonymous   07-24-2004 at 03:01:45 AM
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In article <410152F2.60204@prodigy.net>, CJT <abujlehc@prodigy.net>
writes
>Alexander Grigoriev wrote:
>
>> "orifices"
>
>"sphincters"
>
The idea of "sphincters" OS failing doesn't bear thinking about.
>>
>> "JK" <JK9821@netscape.net> wrote in message
>> news:41010C11.1F5B0306@netscape.net...
>>
>>>Doors? That doesn't sound so intriguing. A more hitech sounding name
>>>is portals. How about openings?
>>>
>>>hu-mi yu wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>>>>Hash: SHA1
>>>>
>>>>On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:31:01 +0000, CJT wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Rindows, anyone?
>>>>
>>>>I like Windoz (tm), but if you are really tired of
>>>>crawling in the windows your computer, why not
>>>>install doors (tm)?
>>>>
>>>>- ----------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>Though you see through me,
>>>>I am not a window,
>>>>And what you see
>>>>is only a reflection of yourself.
>>>>
>>>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>>>Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)
>>>>
>>>>iD8DBQFBAMUGkCXxu5aE9BwRAv4NAJ9ECBI35y4h1/IKtFQxvG5o4n6I9QCdGyaU
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>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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Anonymous   07-24-2004 at 10:43:34 AM
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Alexander Grigoriev <alegr@earthlink.net> wrote:
> "orifices"

That'll get Oracle all fired up. :-)

Yousuf Khan

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Anonymous   07-24-2004 at 08:44:59 PM
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Egad! The mycroshylls are firing back! Clever
strategy. They want to be sure you know that
every windozer (tm) based computer has the
latest in depleted technology from uranus.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:56:43
+0000, MyndPhlyp wrote:

> Instead of playing one of M$'s jingles when Doors starts up,
> it could be replaced with a pirated MP3 of "People Are
> Strange" and fit right in with the digit heads.

That should read: replaced with a *licensed* MP3 of
<something not quite so stale>.

This is the music business, and they are serious about
protecting copyrights. That is why musicians never, never,
ever, use pirate copies of windows. They don't need
to, because they copy linux legally.

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