Last year Microsoft went to sue Lindows, a small Linux software upstart with barely fifty employees, claiming their name is too similar to "Windows".

Microsoft lost.

Now Lindows has turned the tables on MS and is seeking to have Microsoft's "Windows" trademark invalidated. In 1993 United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected Microsoft's request for the "Windows" trademark. Then in 1995, they got the trademark. What's curious about the 1995 grant, according to Federal District Judge Coughenour who is presiding over the Lindows case, is that the trademark was granted "with no analysis or explanation for its reversal of the original decision to refuse registration."

Curious indeed.

Full Story here. (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/30/technology/30LOGO.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5062&en=1d122fddd1ff151e&ex=1041 915600&partner=GOOGLE)

seems like Lindows can't compete so make money the old fashioned way...sue, sue, sue!

Are they looking for money or merely trying to kick Microsoft in the groin? Microsoft came after them first, so it looks like they're trying to return the favour.

I think they just want to give Microsoft a taste of their own medicine. Screw them like they've screwed countless smaller companies.

Absolutely, a case of David kicking Goliath in the groin! Only a dope would feel boo hoo for big bad M$ who goes out of their way to throw their pocketbook around trying to eliminate competition. And only a dope would seem to imply that other can't compete with them on an even playing field. There are no even playing fields because M$ lobs grenades all over what once were level fields... Lindows and what Walmart is doing with it are both a joke, but that's neither here nor there.