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Thursday, September 09, 2004

What the Linspire Settlement Reveals

Orange Crate: "If you read the confidential Settlement Agreement between Linspire (the company formerly known as Lindows), and Microsoft, you will notice some very peculiar facts. The most startling aspect of the $20 Million settlement agreement between the two companies does not have anything to do with the trademark violations, but rather with copyrighted media files. Apparently, Lindows (as the Linspire distribution had been known) was distributing a version of Linux that contained several Windows Media files. Specifically, the settlement names the Dynamic Link Library (dll) files that were being used within media products within that distrtibution: wma9dmod.dll, wmadmod.dll, wmspdmod.dll, wmv9dmod.dll and wmvdmod.dll. These files are said top be copyrightred by Microsoft, and they appear to be central to claims of patent infringement or of the possibility of same being claimed by Microsoft."

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