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" The use of the name Lindows is not allowed in The Netherlands. Dutch distributors of Lindows may not continue reselling Lindows.

Microsoft claimed Lindows OS and Lindows.com are confusing.

“Lindows benefits unjustified on the success of Windows, because Lindows.com markets its product as both Windows and Linux.“ according to the judge.

The 4 dutch distributors have to stop reselling and advertising Lindows within 8 days.

Also Lindows.com must be inaccessible for people browsing the Internet from The Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg)

This verdict is simulair as recent ones in Finland and Sweden where judges also prohibited the use of the name LindowsOS and Lindows.com.

Lindows.com could change its name for the Benelux countries, but according to Erik Vollebregt, the attorney of Lindows.com this is not likely to happen cause the sales of Lindows.com in the Benelux are not that high.

"We just forwarded the verdict to the US. So we have to see if Lindows.com wants to spend money going to a higher court", according to Vollebrecht."

www.webwereld.nl

Too Bad. It doesn't look good.

Oh yeah glory to the empire the won the never never lands.... Big whoop.

I think the EU is wrong to punish Microsoft for bundling their media player into Windows, and have defended Microsoft on this issue in other posts.

But this time I think Microsoft is in the wrong. This is ridiculous. Microsoft has more important things to worry about than whether or not some company is using a name which sounds like "Windows".

When it comes to Microsoft, I just cannot seem to agree with European court rulings lately.

agreed. you'd think they have better things to do. Microsoft may be confused by the name but I can tell the difference

I submitted the article and that was the whole article. I forgot to post the link with it. I found that particular article through a series of links. Here is another article since I can not remember where I found that one.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040130/laf026_1.html

Sorry about that.

ah they are just a very crappy linux distro, no big loss

I always thought the name, 'Lindows' was kinda stupid anyway.

Well I suppose this is why Windows is easily confused and prone to doing things that just don't make sense. The company that created it is the same way.

"agreed. you'd think they have better things to do. Microsoft may be confused by the name but I can tell the difference"

I'm sure they feel that there is no one thing more important than complicating thier compitition's lives. I bet they have lots of guys working full time on finding every little way to try and keep the small dogs in check. Thats just buisness. The BIG kind anyway.

Anyway I'm sure all those people that need to be told not to let babys play with bags, that "this movie is formated to fit this screen," and have to be reminded to check both ways before pulling out of their driveways will be over joyed with this news. That is if they are not to busy trying to remember how to tie their shoes to notice.