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Yes, but names starting with a trademark are a no-no. See [0] (bitcrazed works on WSL) and [1]. Also IANAL. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697918

by hdhzy 10y ago

Yes, but names starting with a trademark are a no-no. See [0] (bitcrazed works on WSL) and [1]. Also IANAL. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697918 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697918 [1]: https://www.andreas-jung.com/contents/dont-use-docker-in-github-repo-names-or-as-twitter-handle https://www.andreas-jung.com/contents/dont-use-docker-in-git...

mustpax 10y ago
In that case Windows Linux Subsystem seems like a good compromise.
- throwaway91111 10y ago
  It's never going to happen. :(
- criddell 10y ago
  Shouldn't that be Windows' Linux Subsystem?
dheera 10y ago
How about "Windex"? Oh wait ...
greglindahl 10y ago
I thought that both "Windows" and "Linux" were trademarks?
- lmitchell 10y ago
  Presumably Microsoft is allowed to use Windows wherever they please ;)
- simonh 10y ago
  Since they are saying it is 'for Linux' rather than it is Linux, I suppose they are probably ok, although the system doesn't contain or even work with any parts of Linux itself in any way.
squarefoot 10y ago
And sometimes even parts of a trademark can be risky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire
- Someone1234 10y ago
  Unclear what you think that proves. Microsoft paid $20m to buy their trademark and they changed their name.
  - squarefoot 10y ago
    Yes, it went well for Linspire, still it attracted a lawsuit, and the reason they didn'tlose wasn't because Lindows is different from Windows but because "windows" was a generic term already used as such by Microsoft itself. I wonder what would have happened if the MS product was called say WinOS and the other one LinOS, where none of the terms are common words so that similarity would be the only matter.