Lindows Agreeing to Change Name

xandroid writes "It looks like Lindows.com has thrown in the towel for the fight to keep its name: the Seattle Times reports that they 'would not continue a worldwide legal battle with Microsoft.' They will announce the new name next Wednesday, although a favorite is Lindos -- 'because it's the W that is causing all the problems'." Update: 04/07 19:37 GMT by S : This is worth clarifying - Michael Robertson is claiming "...the company will go by a different name outside the U.S. until it can win the right to use the Lindows name internationally."

Winux isnt the future

[stecoop]

because it's the W that is causing all the problems

So the name isn't going to be Winux - because problems with Ws.

This seemed kind of inevitable.

[The I Shing]

I always kind of figured that Lindows would have to cave eventually. Microsoft is just too big and powerful to square off with over the name of a product, and I'm surprised that someone would create a name so obviously based on Microsoft's main product without considering the fact that the software giant would be almost forced to take legal action.

Instead of Lindos, how about Lindros? They could use the handsome face of the Canadian-born New York Ranger as their logo, but what slogan would they use? Maybe something about hacking?

smart move

[SoTuA]

Enough like the old one to retain the brand recognition, and they can point out it is LindOS, if MS comes a-suing again. Of course, the question is "will it keep sucking?" ;)

If it's the last "w" that's causing the problem...

[bc90021]

...why not just call it "Windos"? ;)

That W

[BrodyVess]

Strange- the American economy and international reputation has the same issue. Its that W. thats causing all the problems

Score one for Microsoft

[dasmegabyte]

Finally, a win for the little guy!

New Name Announced

[swordboy]

The new name will now be:

Wierdows

It's the W that's causing all the problem

[DRUNK_BEAR]

Am I the only one who sees a connection with US politicians?? :P

Re:Winux isnt the future

[Bob McCown]

I can see the ads now:

Winux. The Opewating System fow Centuwions!

-Biggus Dickus

Here's a good name..

[ganiman]

LinDOES

because WinCANT

Oh dear, Lindos...

[Dark Lord Seth]

Someone give the entire company a moderation of "+1, Troll", thanks :)

As long as they

[beforewisdom]

don't choose "firebird" I think they will be okay

How about a Homeric name

[lrc]

Lin-D'Oh!s

NotWindows

[debaere]

I think the new name should be NotWindows.

How can they complain? Its obviously not windows, right? :)

It's the W

[Shipud]

...because it's the W that is causing all the problems.

Strike W from Windows and you get INDOS, which is an accurate description of the product.

Re:Winux isnt the future

[VValdo]

So the name isn't going to be Winux

Winux Is Not... Uh... Xenix?

W

Re:lindos eh

[Bingo Foo]

Wouldn't it be easier to assume no one is a lawyer unless they say otherwise?

Not in America.

Re:Easy-Linux

[loyalsonofrutgers]

Ooh, ooh: FireLind. Or, better yet, LindFox.

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the W

[FearUncertaintyDoubt]

'because it's the W that is causing all the problems'

We're talking about politics, right?

Re:Winux isnt the future

[Gildor]

Be vewy vewy quiet...i'm installing winux!

Re:Winux isnt the future

[karnal]

No, Winux Is Not Unlike Xerox.

Re:New name suggestions here!

[Ernest P Worrell]

I think you have just come up with the best marketing idea ever. Gosh, who wouldn't buy atleast three copies of a product with a name like that?!?!

"Phffft, you're running Windows 2005. Lamer! I'm on BillGatesHasNoPenis 2.4, which is so much more superior."

Re:Winux isnt the future

[Cruciform]

Wouldn't that be "Linukth"?

Re:Easy-Linux

[boisepunk]

They're selling LS-D? The DEA will be after their sorry asses.

Re:Winux isnt the future

[cybermancer]

They should go with "Lindos" with the slogan, "Because it's the MS that is causing all the problems."

Doesn't matter, M$ will TM it before they will.

[denis-The-menace]

During the Anti-trust proceedings, MS gave "make work" projects to all available Anti-Trust Lawyers that they could find. That way, the procecution couldn't find any lawyers to help them.

I wouldn't be suprised if MS went out an Trade Marked, Copyrighted or Patented any possible variations of Windows

Bindows, Cindows, Dindows, Findows, Gindows...
lindose, lindoz, lindohs, lindOS, lind0Z

Re:Winux isnt the future

[u-235-sentinel]

They will announce the new name next Wednesday, although a favorite is Lindos -- 'because it's the W that is causing all the problems'."

Geez.. All this trouble over the letter W?

Next thing you know -e'll hear la-suits to eliminate the W in -ednesday. After next -eek's ne-sconference, -e -ill have to stop using that letter in all our -ork. Microsoft o-ns it :-)

Oh, come on!!!

[JamesP]

It remins me of that story...

Guy asks to change his name...

Judge: It's not like that we need proof that your name is a bad one.

Guy: My name is Johm Crap

Judge: Yes, we'll change it right away. What would you like to be your new name?

Guy: Jack Crap...

Re:If it's the last "w" that's causing the problem

[Total_Wimp]

...and then they could make the OS part real big and claim it's Wind OS. To highlight that the real name is really Wind they could have a grassy hill as the background with blue sky and fluffy clouds being blown about.

Of course, the whole slashdot communty could have a field day saying "WindOS really blows!" but, hey, you can't have everything.

TW

LinDOS?

[nofx_3]

Uh oh, I don't think LinDOS would please Microsoft, they are going to complain it infringes on their DOS copyright. And besides, now all the techies are going to think its a dos emulator for linux or something. Since it will now be the D that is causing trouble I suggest they take out the D and become LinOS. But then MS will complain it sounds too much like WinOS or something. So I suggest the just change the name to L. Microsoft cannot complain at all about the L. You could even call the theL that would be kinda catchy.

How about Linzizzle?

[tbase]

Gazziza Dilznoofus! Get with the crezappy power of Wiznitch OS... Wiznitch got tha upstate prison flavor that keeps you ugly all night long. So when you wanna get sick remember, nothing makes yo' feet stank like Wiznitch OS... DAMN! It's crezappy!!!"

Re:NotWindows

[Anonymous Coward]

i could see the tech support now....

tech: so what os are you running
caller: not windows
tech: thats nice, i think that ms is a bunch of pricks to, but what ARE you running?

they could just call it What(tm)
tech: what OS are you running?
caller: What OS
tech: ... the one on your PC
caller: What
tech: do you speak english?

!Windows

[dsmoses]

How about !Windows, cause then it could not be any clearer that is has nothing to do with windows.

Re:Winux isnt the future

[Short Circuit]

I'm thinking "Lindoze" would be great. If Microsoft went after them for similarity to "Windoze", I'd laught till I fell off my chair.

(And I'm on a high chair at a sign-in desk, atm.)

Law has determined that rhymes are illegal.

[kenp2002]

Windows has hit an all time low, Good bye they said to the resturant Rob Lowe's!

"It's time to get them!" screamed 3M as they sue'ed their neighbors Aunt Em and IBM.

Cargill's fighting just the same, It appears Hank Hill is in the chill.

Burn those CDs Nero's dad said. Ahead get to burnin' but ahh then again. Now Bevis and Butthead are raging again, heard something something about thier big old heads.

Who's next, The Not-So-Soft Concrete company? I might see, but Too close to Microsoft, tee-hee.

Miramax and Cinamax, and Climax oh my, who will win that one, which one will die.

Honda sues Fonda and Ford sues the Lord, Paul Ruben is suing sandwich shops in accord with clock but a tick but that can't be cuz of BiC who sue the tick-tock if the Stanley's did sue cuz of their locks!

So how till Sony starts claim their ponies are phonies and sue dead Sonny for money cuz it's just not so funny while Cher start gearing for Sharepoint's ever pending sue fest and hearings on whether the only word that in english can be used is the single word...

ORANGE

My insaine ramblings, not neccesarily ment to be poetry, littery going for the COMPLETLY INSAINE LUNATIC RAMBLING. Read with frequent outburst of anger and madness.

New Name

[Anonymous Coward]

Wouldn't it be GNU/Winux?

Creative Names

[pdrome4robert]

When Apple was developing the Power Macintosh 7100, the interal code name for the computer was "Sagan", in honor of Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan sued and lost. Apple changed the name to "Butthead Astronomer". Sagan sued again, this time for libel, and lost again. So the the law will look the other way for more creative names. For example... DieRedmondDie, GatesUX, SueThis, BlueScreenOfDeath, BorgLawyer, or RedmondKeepYourHandsOffMyComputer. No law suit fodder here.

Re:Lindos

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you an idiot? Three hundred trillion people have already thought they were clever pointing this out, and as always the reply is that DOS is a generic fucking term. Ever heard of AmigaDOS, DR-DOS, PC-DOS, QDOS, Apple DOS, FreeDOS or any of the other six fucking million operating systems called something-DOS that aren't by Microsoft and even predate MS-DOS in some cases? Of course you haven't, because you're an AOL-subscribing, Compaq-using fucking Windows XP faggot who signed up to Slashdot fucking yesterday. I spit on you and your kin. Go to hell before I fucking kill you.

Lindovvs

[Nick Driver]

L i n d o v v s

Re:Winux isnt the future

[aaamr]

How about LindoUUs

It's a double-U, not a W.

Re:New name suggestions here!

[JPriest]

This reminds me of 2600.com vs Verizon when they registered verizonsucks.com. The got mad and registered something like Verizon-should-spend-more-money-fixing-their-netwo rk-and-less-money-on-layers.com

New name to be....

[Anonymous Coward]

LinmicrosoftsuxassDows

Re:New name suggestions here!

[orangesquid]

Bill Gates isn't a person.

Bill Gates are obviously how money gets out of the treasury's printing room. Duh.

Problem Solved!

Re:Winux isnt the future

[Mr. Bad Example]

No, that would by by Pilate.

Don't you mean "Palm Pilate"? I hear the new models will even wash your hands for you...

It should be...

[maxpwr]

"I can't believe it's not windows"...

Re:Winux isnt the future

[dasmegabyte]

So...you're saying it's a copy?

Other rejected names:

[El_Smack]

Mandwake
Swackware
WedHat
Winux

Whoa, I just realized how bad guys with speech impediments must hate this whole open source thing. Does any one high up in MS have one? Is the reason they gave IE away free that Ballmer got tired of the laughing when he said "Netscwape" in meetings?

Re:If it's the last "w" that's causing the problem

[NoData]

problem with Wind OS is that it sounds too much like "Wind Aw's" which is awful close to "Wind Ass" if you're British. Maybe that's OK, though.

Other ideas:

Wind Owes
Wind O's
Win Does (like the deer)
Win Doh's!
Or, for the far east flavor,
Nguyen Doze

Re:Winux isnt the future

[Prof.Phreak]

I still don't see what's wrong with Licrosoft... :-)

My suggestion

[kaltekar]

SoSu Me :)

The new name should be....

[Anonymous Coward]

"The Operating System Formally Known as Lindows"

Re:This seemed kind of inevitable.

[IcerLeaf]

Instead of Lindos, how about Lindros? They could use the handsome face of the Canadian-born New York Ranger as their logo, but what slogan would they use? Maybe something about hacking?

Big! Powerful! Productive!

Then in fine print... Do not bump computer's case. System may crash and not reboot for months at a time. Do not anger software author's father, or software may automatically revoke its license at any time without warning. Software may refuse to boot for certain users, except the Rangers or Leafs.

Who am I kidding, nobody will get these jokes on Slashdot! Say hello to -1 Off Topic!

Why not really appease the geeks..

[kortex]

...and call it Lindoze?

Windex?

[ZZ-Type]

I suppose "Windex" is out of the question?

Wascally OS

[weston]

Would that be spweading Fudd?

Naming can be Important

[mopslik]

Don't put so much stock in a name, its not all that important.

I don't know about that. Take Phoenix Air [phoenixair.com] for example. I don't know about you, but any airline named after a bird that burts into flames and plummets down from the sky won't be getting my business anytime soon.

Re:Winux isnt the future

[Sfing_ter]

I'm thinking "Lindovvs", you don't hardly have to change the monograms... :)

Re:This has me wondering...

[jc42]

Y'know, you can pop the key cap off quite easily with a knife blade or screwdriver, and press a new one in place. It can be fun to do this with a few of the odd keys on someone's keyboard. I knew someone once who liked the Dvorak keyboard, and moved all the key caps around on his keyboard to match that layout. Impressed the hell out of most visitors. I had this temptation to sneak in one day and move them all back, just to see the reaction.

Maybe someone should start making key caps with little Tux logos on them, for when you install linux and don't want that damned Windows logo to be on your nice machine.

A problem we have around our house is a cockatiel who sneaks in when he thinks you can't catch him, and pops off the key caps. So far we've always found them, but some day he's going to fly off with one and hide it. Or he'll figure out how to put them back on.

I have seen some replacement keys that say "Any".