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| Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
Firefox's name was changed because of another sourceforge project named Firebird.
The reason Lindows changed it's name is because Microsoft began to go to each country where Lindows had business and petition courts to prevent Lindows from using that name in that country, since Microsoft was not winning the U.S. court case to get the Lindows name thrown out. Some of these foreign courts specified damages of thousands of dollars per day that the Lindows name remained in effect, so they were forced to generate a name change.
If Lindows were to win the U.S. case, they plan to petition the U.S. State Department to have these court cases nullified or at least have the damages nullified.
It's tough to win at court when your plaintiff has billions of dollars at hand.
If you were to go to the Linspire site you will see a link to a much better explanation of this than mine.
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"[They] watch the bonfire mark the end of the Madman/They all watch the bonfire die into embers/They all watch the funeral morning glow./The Madman is dead./The dawn wind whispers:/'The Madman is dead.'"--S.C.Schumacher, "The Madman of Hamberton Swabe" |
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