Comment by 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"?
> ...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.
I didn't leave that part out. I literally quoted that in the previous comment.