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

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:26:05 +0200
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

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

How about translinux?
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