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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by hdhzy on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:17PM (#14093699)
Yes, but names starting with a trademark are a no-no. See [0] (bitcrazed works on WSL) and [1]. Also IANAL.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697918

[1]: https://www.andreas-jung.com/contents/dont-use-docker-in-git...

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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by mustpax on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @09:36PM (#14094085)
In that case Windows Linux Subsystem seems like a good compromise.
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by criddell on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @09:37AM (#14097504)
Shouldn't that be Windows' Linux Subsystem?
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by throwaway91111 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:22PM (#14094228)
It's never going to happen.

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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by dheera on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:07PM (#14094417)
How about "Windex"? Oh wait ...
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by squarefoot on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @04:25AM (#14095802)
And sometimes even parts of a trademark can be risky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by Someone1234 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @10:30AM (#14098006)
Unclear what you think that proves. Microsoft paid $20m to buy their trademark and they changed their name.
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by squarefoot on Thursday April 13, 2017 @04:59AM (#14105296)
Yes, it went well for Linspire, still it attracted a lawsuit, and the reason they didn'tlose wasn't because Lindows is different from Windows but because "windows" was a generic term already used as such by Microsoft itself.

I wonder what would have happened if the MS product was called say WinOS and the other one LinOS, where none of the terms are common words so that similarity would be the only matter.

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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by greglindahl on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:20PM (#14094474)
I thought that both "Windows" and "Linux" were trademarks?
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by lmitchell on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:51PM (#14094606)
Presumably Microsoft is allowed to use Windows wherever they please ;)
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Re:Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux by simonh on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @07:37AM (#14096672)
Since they are saying it is 'for Linux' rather than it is Linux, I suppose they are probably ok, although the system doesn't contain or even work with any parts of Linux itself in any way.
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