[Fwd: Re: [Leaplist] Another Vixta ??]

[Fred Moore]

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Subject: 	Re: [Leaplist] Another Vixta ??
Date: 	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:16:07 -0500
From: 	Fred Moore <fmoor at fmeco.com>
Reply-To: 	fred at fmeco.com
Organization: 	fmeco.com
To: 	patrick <pberry2 at cfl.rr.com>
References: 	<47BEB463.30201 at digital.net> <47BEB9D6.6040401 at fmeco.com>
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patrick wrote:
> 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.
>
>   



Can you tell me for sure that all of the software they have in the
distro is based outside the US.. me thinks not..


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

No Vixta is based upon Vixta... they have decided themselves to put
everyone else at risk..

> 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...
>   

check out the numbers before you say that Patrick..  600 million is a
simple "Cost of doing business"  that is not even 1 hour of their
revenue stream..  They could care less or they would have complied 2
years ago..
> 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.
>   

and why was that..  was it the legal action about name association.. 
see how this works..

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


Its not about protecting them.. its about protecting ourselves..

> 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.
>>     
>
>   

I hope no one is offended but I will not be assisting anyone with any
problems if they are running Vixta..  I think anyone in the community
involved is assisting to increase the risk factor.. Fred


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