[ale] Fw: [LeapList]Lindows needs your help!

Thu Aug 22 22:33:35 EDT 2002

I am posting this because I thought the ALE group might be interested in helping out. The message is from a LUG in Central Florida.

Harold

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Subject: [LeapList]Lindows needs your help!
From: Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:37:36 -0400
Cc: legal at lindows.com
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Hi all,

When hassled by M$, the easy thing for Lindows to do would have been to 
quietly change their name. But they hung tough, and now the very Windows 
trademark is in question.

They need our help. To quote from 
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,468924,00.asp:

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""Many people have congratulated us, prematurely, on our victory." Robertson 
wrote. "While the judicial system did block their request to shut us down, a 
trial is looming for April 2003. At that time, the judge (or jury) will 
decide whether Microsoft has a valid trademark for the word 'windows' and 
whether the Lindows.com name is confusing. In the interim, we're moving 
through the legal process where Microsoft is demanding, as part of the 
discovery process, everything from our business plan to our list of partner 
companies." 

Robertson said the legal burdens of trying to defend against Microsoft were 
difficult for a company with only 39 employees. Lindows is attempting to show 
that the term "Windows" has been in general use for many years before 
Microsoft applied for its copyright. 

"If you have magazine or newspaper articles, academic papers, journal 
articles, product manuals, advertisements, textbooks, dictionaries, or 
anything else that uses the terms, we'd like to hear from you," Robertson 
said, appealing to the company's customer base. "We'd also like to hear from 
anyone who had personal experience in the industry during those early years 
and can recall the history of the early windowing products such as Xerox's 
Star, VisiCorp's VisiOn, Apple's Lisa, Digital Research's GEM, Quarterdeck's 
DesQ, IBM's TopView, and others.""
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I think we all have an idea what Microsoft will do with Lindows' business 
plan and partner list, and I doubt it has anything to do with this lawsuit. 
If anybody can get their hands on anything mentioned above, please let 
Lindows know about it. They have a special email address for legal stuff: 
legal at lindows.com. 

This company might have only 39 employees, but they have the heart of a giant.

SteveT
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