People in Glass Houses

Holy cow. Microsoft gives up $20 million for Lindows to stop using their all-too-Windows-like name. I really had to look at it twice -- must be a misprint?

"It's all over. The Microsoft vs. Lindows saga reached a stunning conclusion with the joint announcement of a worldwide settlement Monday. The agreement involves the Lindows name itself as well as the usage of copyrighted Windows Media files that are currently shipping with their Linux distribution." (link)

Actually, it's $15M upfront. They can only get the other $5M if they can actually get Network Solutions to manage to transfer the rights. I guess it's chump change for Microsoft -- it's not like Peyton Manning money, anyway.

Posted by juechi at July 21, 2004 01:46 PM