osforge.com

Microsoft has asked a Seattle court to reconsider a strongly worded ruling, issued in March, that Windows is a generic term and that it doesn't have exclusive rights to the name.

The Court finds that Lindows.com has met its burden of proof in rebutting the validity of the Windows trademark," said Judge John C. Coughenour at the time.

Lindows.com chief executive Michael Robertson accused Microsoft of belaboring the outcome in an effort to "drag our company through a lengthy and costly legal battle." Robertson said that Lindows.com supporters submitted thousands of references to windows spanning the last 20 years. "They helped build a strong foundation which the Judge relied on in his initial ruling," he said. "Microsoft's hundreds of attorneys and billions of dollars can't rewrite history and the fact that windows is a generic term."

Defending the initial refusal of a trademark for Windows by the Trademarks office in 1993, Microsoft said the decision was made before it produced evidence of "non-genericness." The Trademark Office later reversed its decision and granted Microsoft a trademark in 1995. An expert linguistics analysis of media use found that the term "Windows," said Microsoft, was either used with a capital "W" to refer to Microsoft's product or with a lower case "w" to refer to discrete viewing areas on a computer screen.

So if LindowsOS changed it's name to lindowsOS with lower case "L" will Microsoft stop persuing the case? I dont think so. One of a internet users posted a messaging saying " Not Only Microsoft wants to monopoly our desktop but also tell us how to write".

Microsoft should be ashame of themselves for killing technology revolution and expanding creativities in technology world.