Subj : Re: wxWidgets
To   : comp.programming
From : Phlip
Date : Mon Jul 04 2005 06:38 pm

Jyrki Alakuijala wrote:

> It is a bit strange that wxWindows was forced to change its name
> to wxWidgets because of pressure from Microsoft (as they have
> a product called Microsoft Windows XP). Previously, there have
> been many similarly named product families, like Sun's OpenWindows
> and X Windows etc. -- How come Microsoft Windows did not conflict
> with them? Perhaps they just bought the wxWindows team off their
> original name (similar to the Lindows deal) ... ?

MS backed up their name "Windows" by claiming "everyone calls their GUI
Toolkits 'windows' so we can too".

Then as part of their mercantile campaign against Linux, the best kind of
judge-shopping is global, because you can always find a good deal somewhere.
That's why the two "Windows" offerings too small to fight back, Lindows and
wxWindows, had to change their names.

(OTOH "Lindows" was too stupid a name to be meaningful beyond the obvious
"teasing MS" factor...)

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  Phlip
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