Comment by jajuuka

4 months ago

I'm not sure why you jumped to the conclusion that meant a literal war. Of course there was no literal war. And Microsoft did not do everything it could kill Linux and OSS. That is some serious revisionist history. Instead of speaking in generalities like "Microsoft hates Linux" maybe use actual examples and facts.

I'm not sure why you say that's revisionist, your quotes line up with what I said.

Appreciate you calling me delusional for not echoing vague statements to make an OS a victim.

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stephenr  4 months ago

> I'm not sure why you say that's revisionist, your quotes line up with what I said.

What you said:

> Microsoft sued Lindows for infringement and won.

What actually happened:

> Microsoft feared a court may define "Windows" as generic and result in the loss of its status as a trademark

> Microsoft offered to settle with Lindows

> Microsoft paid an estimated US$20,000,000

How is taking someone to court for trademark infringement, and then resorting to paying them $20M dollars to settle because the Judge is about to invalidate your trademark "winning"?

  • jajuuka  4 months ago

    > ...Lindows transferred the Lindows trademark to Microsoft and changed their name to Linspire.

    You left out that part. This is a really dumb battle of semantics though and a derailment of the topic.