In the latest Michael’s Minute, Lindows, Inc. frontman Michael Robertson has announced that LindowsOS will be renamed to most effectively combat the “onslaught” of Microsoft lawsuits. This topic has been heavily debated on this website in the past. The new name will be announced on April 14th.
LindowsOS to be Renamed
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For the new name could I suggest: Windoors
Why not “Winux”
> For the new name could I suggest: Windoors
I think instead it should be Lindoors. Linux + doors
Why not just plain “Doors”? Everyone would understand the reference instantly and Microsoft still wouldn’t have a hope in hell of opposing it in court. And think of the advertising slogan possibilities:
“Do you want to just look out of the Windows or go places through Doors?”
WINDOWS.. You cant trademark that legaly
Why not just plain “Doors”?
I’m sure you’re not the first to suggest that.
Ref: https://forum.lindows.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=199689&page…
Micro Software xWindows XP
Wirdows….
How about Linestre, from the Italian word finestre which means windows?
I’m glad they are changing the name! I hated the name Lindows since I first heard it and I think it really hurt them with the linux community.
Linux XP…. LinghornOS…. L’OS/2…. LeComstation…. LeOS….
Okay, sorry for this pathetic attempt at making a joke…
Well, they had to… Too bad though, I always liked the name, LindowsOS…
LinuXP
LinHorn
Ugg! To really make a point, they should call it:
Linux with X-Windows
Maybe, you should pick April 13th or April 16th. In 1912, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic on April 14th and sank April 15th. Why tempt fate?
I mean I don’t wanna sound like a Microsoft fanboy but seriously Lindows is a lame name and was using another popular title to boost it’s popularity. Now they have a chance to come up with something original and catchy.
It honestly makes people laugh and discredits Lindows to have such a name.
They’ve about milked that name for all its worth. Now they just need a name to push the user-friendliness/Linux ultra-noob angle…
I admire his gall for calling the distro Lindows (and he’s actually right about the legal issues) but he was being a bit naive by thinking that Microsoft wouldn’t hound him legally until he gave up.
Cindows, dindows, findows, gindows, hindows, jindows, kindows, mindows, nindows, pindows, quindows, rindows, sindows, tindows, vindows, xindows, yindows, zindows????
F-MicrOS FT?
Gaytes Ex-Pee?
Is MS still planning on calling the interim WIndows version before Longhorn “Windows XP Reloaded”? Hope they get sued by the WB.
Linux XP…. LinghornOS…. L’OS/2…. LeComstation…. LeOS….
Too late for Linux XP: http://www.linux-xp.ru/
Actually, Winux has got potential.
Doors is the best one.
They can steal the old line “In a world with doors who needs gates and windows”
and call it the CourageOS, because it takes a lot
of courage to challenge the 600lb Gorilla on its
home turf…
Is it really worth it ? I prefer Gentoo, it’s always up-to-date, highly configurable, and best of all, free as a free beer
Keep your money for top-notch hardware.
WinX
Lindose
Winloose
Mikerawsoft Wunix
Microft Winux
What is important after all is what is below the hood, guys!
LindOuch!
Lindowls
LindGates … :@
🙂
Dunno, it sounds more like weenie or whiner to me…
These guys might have something to say about that:
http://mcclure-manzarek.com/doors-boston03.html
ResistanceOS
ChicanOS
GatesNightmareOS
LinBalls… BECAUSE YOU NEED TO HAVE BALLS TO FACE BILL GATE$ RENEGADE!
Lindows is Not Windows
LindBalls LindBalls LindBalls
TakeiteasyOS… Nah, that’s rubbish… Bulldows ? WaspOS (beos is so yesterday 😉 )?
about the recursive it shoud be
LinaMP : LinaMP is not another Microsoft Product. Bet the Winamp guys wouldn’t find it funny though.
linDOH!
It’s so simple…
Take a clue from Prince…
“The OS formerly known as Windows”!
And just use a symbol instead of writing it out.
I would tend toward using a caricature of Bill Gates sucking on an egg…
Think it would fly?
LindOS, because the “W” has always been the problem.
As I see that an earlier poster has put forth an idea like the one I suggested…
SO:
How about “NoDRM OS”
or:
“OpenWindows”
or:
“VirusProofOS”
or:
“WindowLinux”
or:
“LOUSYHAG” (Linux On Useful Systems You Halfwit Asshole Gates)
The OS that takes you to the deep of the computer core to make you fly…
Liberos -the OS that set you free. If you use this name, you must pay me a consulting fee of $3000.
LiberOS
That’s a small price to pay for such as well thought out name.
Longblowrn 2008 – The OS which is far ahead of its time!
MECH – Michael’s Evil Crusty Hair.
Astral eXPerience
Crossbow, Panflute, Tinyviolin, Mammoth, Trample, or take some random Magic Card like Necropotence, Underworld Dreams, Island of Wak-Wak, Ali from Cairo, Regrowth, Mirror Universe.
Also a nice name. An ISP in Italy is called like that. It’s also a brand of pampers (“Libero up and go!”)
I’m glad they want to change it because “Lindows” promotes the incorrect pronunciation of Linux. There are only two ways, Lee-nooks and Lye-nux, to pronounce Linux if you are properly acquainted with English phonetics. Lin-ux is simply incorrect, no question about it.
Oh, I like yours
> here are only two ways, Lee-nooks and Lye-nux, to pronounce Linux
Hmmm, I always thought the only proper pronounciation is Lee-nooks, not Lye-nux.
Yes, in standard English, foreign words spelled with I but pronounced “ee” convert to the standard long-I in English. Strictly speaking, Lee-nooks is the correct pronunciation but since Linux is no longer a Swedish word, it is appropriate for speakers of different languages to adopt it using their languages’ phonetic rules such as the one I stated above.
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/saylinux.htm
Windix
Lindux
Lindix
DesktopOS or is Desktop a registered trademark of Microsoft?
— “Lin-ux is simply incorrect, no question about it.”
Of course, since its a proper name thats not necessarily true. Besides, thats how Linus himself pronounces it. Its a fact, I looked into it a few years ago.
I respect Robertson for wanting to take on Bill Gates, but this whole thing is pretty silly and wasteful.
Rather then spending time and money devoted to improving Linux, they wasted countless hours and millions of dollars in dealing with MS lawsuits. And in the end, the only thing that has resulted is they may have to give up the name they spent 2 years developing and marketing.
Sure hind sight is 20/20, but fore sight should have been used in this case.
Oh well….I still hope they win the case to remove MS’s Windows Trademark name. Again though, it’s not the big battle they should be focusing resources on. The battle over the desktop.
Listen to the wav that someone else linked to. The proper way is not Lin-ux. It should be pronounced with a long I in English. Most British people do it this way, btw.
Read more closely and you will see that they will continue to use the Lindows name in the US:
Our US corporate name will remain Lindows Inc. since we have meaningful name recognition and product distribution
and
outside the US we will go by a different name until we can battle for the right to use Lindows internationally.
The US case will probably take a year to go through the 9th circuit court of appeals and perhaps another year for possible Supreme Court review. Our plan is to go to trial in the US as soon as possible, at which time we hope to get windows declared a generic word. If we win, we plan to approach the State Department and ask them to petition foreign governments to invalidate the windows trademark as they have done for other generic computing terms like “database,” “operating system” and “pascal,” which companies have tried to register as trademarks in foreign countries.
Huh? If Lindows gets a name change (and it’s reasonably certain that it won’t be anything remotely like a MS trademarked name) then what reason does MS have to continue litigation, especially if it wants to avoid the possibility of having its Windows trademark invalidated?
Sometimes I don’t think Michael is all that bright.
CNR OS… ClickOS
… RunOS …..
Mirrors!!!
Hmmm… there is only one correct prononciation for linux, and it’s the one Linux has chosen: leenux (you can hear it on soundconfig’s sound sample).
Linux comes from the _Finnish_ name Linus, which is pronounced Leenus. So, you’re right, it’s not a Swedish name anymore… because it has always been a Finnish word
But, anyway, it’s GNU/Leenux
<joke mode=private>and for the moules, it’s linusque</joke>
Rather then spending time and money devoted to improving Linux, they wasted countless hours and millions of dollars in dealing with MS lawsuits. And in the end, the only thing that has resulted is they may have to give up the name they spent 2 years developing and marketing.
Lindows has spent time on this matter, but has got alot of publicity back. They haven’t needed to do one single marketing campaign thanx to this.
Money they have NOT spent since they have insurances covering up all these lawsuits.
hmm…
I’ve suggested it before, so have other people apparently Lindoors seems a solid choice. It still retains their established “name” but it will be hard to argue with it legally and it leaves a lot of room for advertisement fun.
Alternatively, they can share their name with the popular windows cleaning product, windex (Is that how you spell the stuff?).
Finally, it would be cool if they changed their name to lingates. Gates are the proper way to get in (rather than getting in through the window). A gate is funkier than a simple door and it happens to the name of a certain Bill.
I go for winux. Lindoors sounds like an office supply, like a doorstep accessory
DesktopOS.com has already been taken (by us), and is about to become a trademark of DesktopOS.com in Australia.
Actually, while Linus is indeed from Finland, his mother tongue is Swedish — there is a Swedish speaking minority in Finland.
Anyway, Linus doesn’t really care how you pronounce Linux.
Catch Me if you can OS ?
On some countries in europe Lindoor is a brand of diapers, then again on some countries there’s a detergent called Linux: http://www.ele.uri.edu/~dobratzp/photos/linux_detergent.html
I wish they wouldn’t use any name that end with ‘OS’ or with an ‘X’.
Windows = Windows = Something to look through = Port hole = Port Hole OS = Porthos?
UltraHard Doors XtraLarge
I’ve always pronounced Linux to rhyme with MINIX ( http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html#whatisminix ). It just flows better
For Lindows’ new name, I don’t think I like anything having to do with windows or doors or gates. Clever perhaps but they just don’t sound too good. Not that I have any better ideas.
DesktopOS.com has already been taken (by us), and is about to become a trademark of DesktopOS.com in Australia.
I guess it was a pretty good name after all 😉
Linhorn by MichealSoft
I can’t see any potential confusion here!
They should call it VENTANAS! Windows in spanish!
I think Telelogic would be rather upset if it was called Doors.
http://www.telelogic.com/products/doorsers/index.cfm
I just don’t believe it! There are actually people on this planet discussing how you pronounce Linux… Oh my god… :S
What about GNU/Windows ?
All seriousness aside, and off topic as well, this is the most I’ve laughed reading posts in a long time. I wish we always had this sense of humor
sold at wal-mart? waldows ,Wald Os ,Waldix??
easy to use? whoredows, slutnix, loose-Os
copying windows? crashnix ,bsod Os(blue screen of death)
new linux user? pac-nix (point and click unix),noob os,wtf?-Os
rtfm -nix
DontSueOS
SueusOs
NoGatesOS
NBW recursive Not Bill’s Windows
NoPatchOS
NoIEOS
NoWMPOS
what about the name WineDows