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Lindows bids goodbye to name

David Becker CNET News.com

Published: 02 Sep 2004 09:25 BST

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The Linux specialist formerly known as Lindows announced on Wednesday that it has completed its name change to Linspire. The company agreed to the name change earlier as part of a $20m (£11.14m) legal settlement with Microsoft, which had claimed the original named infringed on its Windows trademark.

MP3.com founder Michael Robertson formed Linspire to sell a desktop version of the open-source Linux operating system with an interface similar to Windows. The company recently scrapped a planned initial public offering.

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