[Leaplist] Another Vixta ??

[patrick]

Fred Moore wrote:
> Danny W. Burdick wrote:
>> aother desktop distribution with a goal to clone the look and feel of
>> Windows Vista.
>>
>> http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=04763
>>
> 
> 
> I am still trying to understand what all the hype is about..  Do we
> actually have people out there who want their Corvette to look like a
> old beat up scooter. 
> 
> I have been waiting for Microsoft to start the legal action against open
> source..  and I think they have cause..  
> 
> Just like I can't start a retail business and name it K-Mert,  or Sars, 
> I don't know how we can in good conscious have a distro called Vixta. 
> Anyone who is involved in this crap deserves to loose everything they
> own in the legal actions.   I can hear the argument in court..  
> 
> Your honor.. not only did they use a name so close to ours misleading 
> the public, but they have openly make every effort to look and feel like
> us..  They are using the billions we spend in promoting Vista to further
> their cause and we have been damaged by billions.. which is want we want
> to recover..
> 
> I will never touch a distro that leaves the entire open source community
> in jeopardy.  Some people are just idiots...   Don't they understand
> that to put a logo on a computer or software that says "Vista Capable"
> they must get microslops permission to use the word.. Vista..  its
> called Trademarking..   
> 
> Wise up people..  Fred
> 
The authors are based in a foreign country, whose laws permit this
variation in name convention, as NOT an infringement.


This is an update/revision of Vixta that we are describing and
discussing. Vixta is based on Fedora.

Microsoft really doesn't want to file lawsuits in the EU right now, as
they have paid th $600 million fine but are STILL NOT in compliance with
the EU Commission and Courts.  Treading lightly, for the moment...

Vixta dates back to the release of Vista, and is concurrent.  Create a
desktop background photo similar to, but NOT identical to, Vista, and
put in on the top of a current GNU/Linux distro.

I remember when Lindows (USA based Corporation) became Linspire, in
America, and remained Lindows, elsewhere.

Not going to trouble myself with protecting the biggest multiple
convicted pirate monopolist felon on the planet.  meh.

BTW, Microsoft has dropped dramatically on the list of "best places to
work",
Quote " > Microsoft has dropped down to #86 within the
> | Fortune Best Places to Work survey? That's down from #50 in 2007 and #42 in 
> | 2006. Like a rock. In a bad way. And who is #1 for two years in a row? Grab 
> | that chair and give it a big effen toss in the air to Google! Toot! They get 
> | bigger and they're still #1." C.O.L.A. newsgroup.