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Wednesday, September 25, 2002

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/09/24/020924hnlindows.xml?s=IDGNS

Netscape hops onboard Lindows
Scarlet Pruitt

LINDOWS.COM SAID TUESDAY that it reached a deal with AOL Time Warner to include the company's Netscape-branded mail, browser, and instant messaging (IM) software with its low-cost Linux-based operating system. The deal places the two Microsoft rivals firmly in one camp against the software juggernaut. Lindows, founded last year and promptly mired in a copyright infringement suit from Microsoft over the similarity between the Windows and Lindows names, has staked out its ground as a low-cost alternative to the Microsoft's dominant Windows OS....

 


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