[Kazan]

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/21/1427204

forced wxWindows to change their name to wxWidgets.... LAME ARSES

[note: i have taken to using wxWindo...erg wxWidgets of late because it's extremely useful - you haven't yet seen any of my new programs that use it though]

[an0n]

WTF?

How come Lindows can get away with the similarity on a "Generic word" defence but wxWindows can't?

[Kazan]

Lindows didn't get away with it - even thought technically Lindows isn't infringing even though they're competeing with M$ and wxWindows MOST CERTAINLY doesn't infringe because they're not even competing with M$

M$ Thinks they own the Word windows now - there are many jokes flying that they're going to be suing companies which make tranparently panes of Silicon Dioxide

[Knight Templar]

Do you really expect anything otherwise from them?

[redsniper]

Windex will have to be changed to Widgex

[Flipside]

Why not just change Windows to 'W*nkers'?

That'll save a lot of lawsuits and put them on more firm ground with the trade descriptions act

And yes, I use it, it's ok, but by God they have their heads shoved so far up their own butts it's unbelievable.

[Stryke 9]

They're still suing children for starting up websites with domain names that are phonetically spelled something more or less like "Microsoft". Does this really come as any surprise at all?

[Kazan]

18-year-olds are hardly children, especially when they turn around and sell the C&D letter from microsoft on ebay

[Odyssey]

Originally posted by Kazan
sell the C&D letter from microsoft on ebay

[color=cc9900]These guys are good.[/color]

[Petrarch of the VBB]

If you're not careful, they'll starting suing your for using the wor, erm, identifiable-sequence-of-letters, "Word"

[kasperl]

god, i'd hate to get Word that i can no longer put on my cv that i Excell in Acces sing systems or that there is any Power in a certain Point.

ok, that wasn't funny.

[Flipside]

That'd be Frontpage news

< Continues to flog Expired Equine >

[Petrarch of the VBB]

This is all good stuff.

*phones his Publisher*




Oh dear, oh dear

[Stryke 9]

Kaz: There's more than the one occasion, actually. And I'm pretty sure one of them was a minor.

[IceFire]

Widgets is pretty cool actually...pah...Microsoft is going to drown under its own bad PR campaign sooner or later.  I'm really waiting for the software behemoth to crumble under its own weight.  Maybe split the company up into a bunch of smaller streamlined companies.

One that makes office software, one that writes operating systems, and one thats a publishing/entertainment house.

[Kazan]

icefire: that would be ineffective - as bill gates would still be the central control and still could swing his operating system around like the brick it is

[Stealth]

Originally posted by Knight Templar
Do you really expect anything otherwise from them?

since you despise Microsoft so much, i'm sure you've changed operating systems, and are using Linux, or a similar non-Windows operating system, right?

[an0n]

I hate MS more than the next guy, but I use XP.

Just because it sucks doesn't mean it's not the best.

[Kazan]

Just because it sucks doesn't mean it's not the best

just because you use it doesn't make it the best

it's very far from

[an0n]

Sure it does.