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Hugh Candlin - 11 Feb 2004 17:48 GMT

The U.S. District Court in Seattle just ruled in the Lindows case
that the Microsoft trademark "Windows" is too generic--
and that because it had been in use before the company's Windows
operating system came into being, no outpouring of Redmond, Wash.,
marketing bucks could alter that.

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cquirke (MVP Win9x) - 12 Feb 2004 17:05 GMT

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:48:39 -0800, "Hugh Candlin" <no@spam.com>

>The U.S. District Court in Seattle just ruled in the Lindows case
>that the Microsoft trademark "Windows" is too generic--
>and that because it had been in use before the company's Windows
>operating system came into being, no outpouring of Redmond, Wash.,
>marketing bucks could alter that.

Now that you mention it; this is exactly true. All GUIs of the time**
used the word "window" for, well, windows - and the usenet heirarchy
specifically refers to ms-windows to distinguish the MS products from
other windowing systems such as X-Windows etc.

** the time being late 1980s; Amiga, Archemedes, QL, Atari / GEM, Mac
and Windows all used WIMP (Windows, Icons, Mouse and Pointer) UIs.

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