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L-I-N-D-O-W-S for sale on eBay

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Have you ever wished you had started and owned Lindows instead of Michael Robertson? After all, the upstart Linux distribution first gained huge notoriety by pulling on the whiskers of the Microsoft monopoly, then by losing a few rounds in court as Gates and company went global court-shopping, but finally banking hundreds of millions of dollars to settle the suit Microsoft had filed against it here in the U.S. Well, whip out your credit card, because you can pick up L-I-N-D-O-W-S right now on eBay for a starting bid of just a couple hundred dollars. The original Lindows signage, that is.

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spuzzzzzzz ·
Maybe my memory is bad, but didn't Lindows/spire win the first few rounds, after which Microsoft settled for $US20 million? They had one ruling go against them in Europe, but I think it was the only one.

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