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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 16:05:04 JST nixCraft 🐧

   helloSystem is a desktop system for creators with a focus on simplicity, elegance, and usability. Its design follows the “Less, but better” philosophy. It is intended as a system for “mere mortals”, welcoming to switchers from the Mac. #FreeBSD is used as the core operating system https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/ #unix #macos

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     3laws (3laws@mastodon.world)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 17:46:02 JST 3laws

     • Tobias Hellgren

     @thanius @nixCraft they can't do shit cuz OSX was also inspired by other systems. Also, statue of limitations.

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     David (davidmoorecyber@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 02:40:01 JST David

     • Tobias Hellgren

     @thanius Based on this wiki page, it looks like most of the legal basis was over the name 'Lindows' (I'm not sure about the CAD part specifically)

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._Lindows.com,_Inc.,

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     David (davidmoorecyber@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2023 04:09:31 JST David

     • Tobias Hellgren

     @thanius Ok yeah, that makes sense.

     From the wiki article, it looks like MS paid Lindows/Linspire $20 million for the Lindows name.