Linspire vs Lindows (was Re: xmms -e better)

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Mon May 17 12:01:24 PDT 2004


On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:08:13 -0400
Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 15 April 2004 9:23 pm, someone claiming to be Joel Hammer
> wrote:<snip>
> > BTW, lindows is changing its name to something insipid
> > like Linspire, as a result of legal pressure from MS in
> > European courts. Just gotta love MS. They were losing
> > in the US courts, so, they just sued overseas in every
> > European jurisdiction.  There are a lot of them. I still am
> > waiting to see anyone who wins fighting MS on the desktop.
> 
> FWIW, I happen to like Linspire better than Lindows. They should used that
> 
> instead of Lindows from the beginning.

Or, what is an obvious grander word than 'windows'? A word that one sees as
related to 'windows', but is obviously more bigger better? Where is the
Thesaurus when you need it?

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