[Am-info] Microsoft Releasing Records to Lindows

[Roy Bixler]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:22:16PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Confusing consumers is not good.  People have too much to do in life 
> besides learning about every scamster.   Reputation is important to 
> functional capitalism, and undermining reputation by allowing imitations 
> of trademarks is bad.

Yes, but are you commenting on the Supreme Court case or the Lindows
case here?  The Lindows case is not so simple since part of it deals
with the question of whether Microsoft has a valid trademark in
Windows at all.  Assuming that they do, then the question comes in of
whether the Lindows name is close enough to Windows to cause
confusion.  I'd say that neither of these points is a slam dunk case
for Microsoft.

R.