Le Mardi 24 Septembre 2002 19:19, J. Greenlees a �crit : > Michael Holt wrote: > >On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, J. Greenlees uttered these words of wisdom: > >>Michael Holt wrote: > >>>On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, denis uttered these words of wisdom: > >>>>just a joke : Windows 2003 !? > >>> > >>>oooh, I don't know if the m$ lawyers would go for that - it would hold > >>> the bar WAY to high for future REAL windoze releases! > >> > >>~looking at my wife's xp system booting~ > >>hey, thier copyright on the name expired two years ago. > >>maybe get tons of sales cause windoze peopes think it is a m$ product. > >> ~g~ > > > >M$ let their copyright expire?????!!!! > > 2001 is the latest date in winxp pro that my wife uses. > unfortunately, that gives them around 49 more years before it becomes > fair game. > ( gotta quit hanging around artists you learn way to much about copyrights > ) > > intellectual properties are good for 50 years.
In the trial of Microsoft against Lindows, Lindows worked because the judge said that windows is so trivial that it could not be trademarked ... So Lindows won. Stef
