Evening tech news: Judges in Finland and Sweden have given Microsoft what it has twice been denied in the U.S.: preliminary injunctions barring Linux vendor Lindows.com from using the , and said it would offer tools to remove and replace the offending characters from the program.
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"North Carolina men face charges... for allegedly operating one of the most prolific spamming operations in the world."
Thank goodness they're out of business! I sure noticed an immediate decrease in the amount of spam... NOT!
How do you inadvertently offer two swastikas? Did not some one creat this? This demonstrates many things about the M$$N, mostly that they are incompetent fools!
Those symbols were in asian fonts where the swastika is used often in Budhism and other Eastern ethnic groups. Not everyone in the world sees the swastika for what the n**** did with it.
There was a symbol long before there were horrible people wearing it.
thank you for saying what needed to be said. to say that the swastika is in-and-of itself evil only shows ignorance of its existence a.) before the time of the n**** and b.) outside the western world.
This is discrimination against Buddhists who have a legitimate use for the symbol! Or maybe not, but I bet there are a lot of Buddhists who wish Hitler had never stolen their symbol.
Can someone tell me HOW to get this character in the named font? I can't seem to find it. I'm a bit worried cuz the n*** Swastika and the Buddhist "Manji" (that's in Japanese) is similar but not the same. See
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mili/surva/dooberu/manzi.html
The left is the Buddhist mark, the right is the Swastika.
So, which one was in the MS font? If they're talkin' about removing the "Manji", then it's REALLY an offensive move.
Our trademark infringement case against Hitler, his regime, and all their families will be heard shortly. Thanks for the support.
-Buddha
I think they should just leave it in. I guess they sort of have to take it out because, whether it's the Buddhist or n*** symbol, people might be offended. But there can be legitimate reasons to use it. If anyone chooses to misuse it, that's on their shoulders, not Microsoft's.
I'm Jewish, and realize there is a non-n*** swastika - I have no problem with it, and would not wish to see it removed.
The other one has to go!
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Change your damn name
Lindows is an obvious rip-off of the Windows brand, and they need to stop playing the lawsuits-for-publicity game.
Lindows should spend more time making a decent OS and less time dashing in and out of courtrooms to defend their obvious infringemnet of Microsoft's trademark.