Buried in recently published financial documents is the news that Lindows, Inc., has been engaged in a lawsuit with rival and one-time partner Xandros, Inc. since the middle of December 2002. Lindows claims that Xandros failed to repay a $750,000 loan, and that the company and other defendants engaged in fraud & criminal misrepresentation during the negotiations leading up to Lindows’ investment in Xandros.
SEC Filing Reveals Lindows Sued Xandros
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1. Old news. (Groklaw reported this weeks ago)
2. Who cares? It’s a lawsuit over a loan that a company reneged on. It has nothing to do with Linux or operating systems or computing in general.
Linux companies suing each other. Fantastic.
1. If you read the article you’ll find that there are quite some news in here.
2. As I am interested in Linux and for the desktop in particular, I do care when two Desktop Linux companies sue each other. If you don’t – fine. You probably don’t care for the SCO or MS lawsuites either I suppose… but who cares if you don’t care!
My apologies if people actually do care about irrelevant lawsuits!
My point, Mr. Lu-Zero is that this lawsuit has nothing to do with technology. It’s about as relevant to operating systems as knowing how Lindows landscapes their property, or what brand of facial tissue Xandros executives use.
If Lindows was suing Xandros over some sort of Linux patent or license, now that *would* be news. (bad news)
The SCO lawsuits, on the other hand, are inherently about technology. And they’re important because SCO is trying to either steal or destroy (take your pick) Linux.
I suppose you’ve missed it but the phase Linux is entering now is more about BUSINESS than technology.
I would go as far as to say that the “Desktop Linux movement” is a commercialization of Linux. A needed one.
In the light of that I do think it is interesting if two of the larger desktop linux businesses are suing each other.
And, though I suppose you didn’t read the article, you should notice that this article also gives you a history on partnerships, business practices etc regarding both Xandros and Lindows.
If you care: read it, discuss it, etc.
If you don’t care. Don’t reply. Argument your case with the Powers that Be over here.
(I don’t think this thread is a good one to do so, since by discussing wether something is on-topic or off-topic in this thread you reap the discussion to another, offtopic layer: something like “Do lawsuits between 2 Linux companies belong on OSNews”.)
I hope that’ll solve the problem you have here for both of you. You both have good intentions…
It should come as little surprise to anyone Linux is going to be in for “lawsuit hell” for years. Once things get to the point where the “big dogs”(ibm, novell, etc.) are playing the game it’s going to be a real free for all.
If you thought Linux was all about FREE, you are likely reading too much Slashdot rather than dealing within the reality of business in this world.
It’s really no different than any other proprietary system; once the smell of MONEY enters the game.