Lindows, AOL, Wal-mart, Microtel, Oh my!

nightheart · 11-17-2002, 07:31 AM

Haven't heard anything on this site about this yet.....

http://www.msnbc.com/news/813350.asp?cp1=1#BODY

the short version of it is that AOL is backing Lindows, at least the ones installed in the new Microtel Walmart PC's. Just curious as to what everybody thinks. I read the flaming of Lindows, M$, and AOL many times on this site, so whats worse M$ windows or AOL Lindows? Is it a good thing if it finally gets rid of the M$ monopoly?

Does seem funny coming from MSNBC which Microsoft owns part of.......

acid_kewpie · 11-17-2002, 07:37 AM

the version i heard was that AOL were considering legal action against Lindows for using their name without permission and that AOL have never had anythign to do with Lindows ever. it was on the register, but the article 404's now.

trickykid · 11-17-2002, 09:21 AM

The only thing AOL ever did was tell Lindows they can license Netscape or something like that. But then Lindows came out and claimed they were partners, then the media saw this and called it the AOL Lindows Operating System. Which AOL then said.. ummm.. NO, we didn't become partners, we just did what we've done a hundred times before with many other companies..

So that sums that up, I don't think it was mentioned on this site cause quite frankly, no one really cared enough to mention it..

crashmeister · 11-17-2002, 01:15 PM

Looks like one of those cases where the guy that wrote the article doesn't know what he is writing about.This seems to happen a lot with internet based anything.Since we are already at gossip alley: They already went to version 3.0 with lindows - seems they want to catch up with everybody else as soon as possible to get to 9.0.Also on related gossip:did you know that the head dev for lindows is also a dev for debian?