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The preliminary decision referred to is in a case Microsoft filed
against Lindows, a company doing a Linux distribution that uses WINE to
run Windows applications. Microsoft claims that the Lindows name
infringes on their Windows trademark. Lindow claims that "windows" is
far too generic to be copyrighted, and, so far, trademark law seems to
agree.
Note, too, the Microsoft guidelines mentioned in the first paragraph;
Microsoft would prefer that every mention of Windows in a document
indicate that the term is trademarked. There's also some basic
background about trademark law that might be useful.
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