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

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 06:20:32 -0500
"David A. Bandel" <david at pananix.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:41:29 +0200
> Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:08:13 -0400
> > Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:
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> > > 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?

Lintransom? Linspiracle?


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