Trademark suit against Lindows thrown out

A judge has thrown out [b]Microsoft[/b]'s law suit against [i]Lindows[/i]. The suit challanged the use of too similar a name to [i]Windows[/i].

[blockquote]Lindow's president and major stockholder, Micheal Robertson, thought there were very good legal grounds to use a defense that the word had been used so often before Microsoft tried to enforce its exclusive use, and had been used in so many generic ways, that the word could neither be copyrighted nor trademarked.[/blockquote]
[link=http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14115][b]The full report[/b][/link] – [i]Submitted by[/i] Ageek (Source next time please, thanks)