Court Allows Lindows To Keep Its Name

[Zone-MR]

[img]http://www.betaone.net/Skin/news/topics/ms.gif' border='0' alt='News Logo' style='float: right' />In a case that could have forced Linux vendor Lindows to change its business name worldwide, a Netherlands court ruled this week that Lindows' current limited use of the Lindows name does not violate Microsoft's Windows trademark.

After it lost an earlier case in the same Amsterdam court over the use of the Lindows name, Lindows changed the name of its operating system product and corresponding Web site to Linspire. However, it kept Lindows as its company name.

Microsoft sued Lindows again, charging that use of Lindows as its company name also constitutes an infringement on its Windows trademark. The Amsterdam District Court disagrees.

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News Source: PC World

[roadworker]

That's about time that a court uses common sense....otherwise,next thing we know is that M$ sues my wife if she wanna clean our "windows"...