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

[David A. Bandel]

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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:41:29 +0200
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> 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?

OK (OpenOffice has one you know).  How about transom or spiracle?

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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