Microsoft vs Lindows

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Wed Aug 14 00:27:01 2002

Owen Robertson wrote:
> on 8/13/02 7:46 PM, Martin Marshall at martinm_at_allwest.net wrote:
>
>
>>This may be a bit off topic.
>>
>>I received a forwarded message that originated from lindows.com. They
>>are in a suit with Microsoft regarding the use of "Lindows,com".
>>Microsoft is suing Lindows for trademark violation. In the message,
>>Michael Robertson, with Lindows, is looking for old documentation of the
>>use of the word "windows" and "windowing" prior to 1983. I can't think
>>of a better resource than this list to find these references. The
>>relevant part of the forwarded message is quoted below.
>>
>>Maybe some of the list members can provide the needed info to
>>lindows.com
>
>
> I have some old (late seventies/early eighties) computer graphics books that
> have entire chapters on windows. What about the Lisa. It came out in 1983,
> but I'm assuming that Apple used the term 'window' to describe it's
> interface prior to it's actual release. What about TopView? Was it pre 1983?
> Probably not.
>
What about GEM the other real windowing software at the time?
Received on Wed Aug 14 2002 - 00:27:01 BST