Microsoft bans term linux in XBOX live

I tried to enter linux as my motto on xbox live and I got an error saying that I used a term or phrase that is not allowd

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Comedy

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• microsoft
• linux
• xbox
• live

[rnawky]

Ok you can't use Microsoft either, They don't allow Company Names or Trademarks.

[zippohenrik91]

In a world without walls and fences, we need no Windows and Gates! -Linus Torvalds

There will be changes!

Linux and other open source software will defeat Microsoft!

This will happen in a few years now, we all know it!

[billsurlatete]

@schmidtbag i really dont understand why they would ban the name, all it would really do is annoy people who want to use it. i did here ballmer once refer to linux as cancer....

[schmidtbag]

@billsurlatete that comment i can agree with, but, keep in mind censorship is anticompetitive. intel got in lots of trouble for paying websites not to sell amd products, and that was classified as anticompetition. now when you look at this situation in the sense that rnawky (top rated comment) said, this isn't anticompetitive, or even stupid at all. however, considering the massive amount of trademarks in the world i can't possibly see how MS would ban all of them

[billsurlatete]

@schmidtbag bundling a browser with win98 was anti-competitive. im talking about the basic principles of business. you act in a way which hinders your competition the most without provoking the laws of the land. although linux is not commercial entity traditionally, the growth of various disto's does pose a very real threat to microsoft in the enterprise market, especially with servers and reduced support costs. but yes banning the name is silly.

[schmidtbag]

@billsurlatete no, its called anticompetition, which is actually illegal

[billsurlatete]

@schmidtbag its called business. kill or be killed.

[billsurlatete]

@blinxwang to be fair, i have very basic needs, but i do from time to time have to edit things in the command line that are graphically displayed on mac or windows. and i did want to download a new graphjics driver which involved compiling it, it really isn't something a novice could do.

[billsurlatete]

@Plissken07 i felt the same until recently. but ubuntu10.10 has a come a long way and is definatley a consumer option. i got a new laptop with win7 on it for christmas.it was pretty sluggish and couldn't even get a good frame rate on quake live. i installe3d the new ubuntu its much faster sleeker, nicer looking. nice wee 3d effects.never crashes runs quakelive amazing. for general internet music etc its a good platform.

[MateiAlexandruBogdan]

@zippohenrik91 Not a good idea. I know that the file permissions and the unix heritage makes it much much safer but if linux turns 50/60% of the market, viruses will be written for it, no matter how secure it is.

[Plissken07]

@blinxwang

Oh, please. Even with KDE, Gnome, it still sucks. Yast, RPM, all shit.

No. Concept of free software is good. 500 clones of the same program with lots of bugs or lacking features, very bad.

[blinxwang]

@Plissken07

>He thinks Linux is not user friendly, entirely dependent on the Terminal.

>Also thinks that Free Software is all shit.

GUYS GUYS I THINK WE MIGHT HAVE FOUND A TIME TRAVELER FROM 1995!!!!