Lindows Iii Microsoft 0

The Register reports that Lindows has won a fry victory inward the Netherlands. Judge Sj. A. Rullmann has held that Lindows is entitled to piece of job the give-and-take “Lindows” equally a companionship name. Although the companionship changed the lift of its operating arrangement inward the wake of a challenge past times Microsoft, based on Microsoft’s Windows operating system, it retained Lindows equally its companionship name. It appears that it has immediately been vindicated inward this decision.

thinks that although this is expert intelligence for Lindows, it may non hold out of much piece of job to them, since the existent selling dot of the Lindows lift is the parallel it draws betwixt the Linux-based production in addition to the Windows operating system. Unless Lindows tin hold out used equally a merchandise score for operating systems, this parallel cannot hold out straight drawn.

More fry victories here in addition to here

Ipkat Translation Watch

Another merchandise score instance has flora its trend on to the ECJ website simply without an English linguistic communication version: Peak Holding AB 5 Axolin Elinor AB. This is an Opinion of Advocate General Stix-Hackl on a reference concerning Article 7(1) of the merchandise score harmonisation directive (Council Directive 89/104), which deals alongside exhaustion of rights. Does anyone know what it's about? Nb It's non available inwards Danish, Greek, Dutch, Finnish or whatever of the nine languages of the novel Accession States.

Lindows 2: Microsoft 0

The Lindows saga rolls on equally the Register here, here together with here

Naked As Well As Upside Down

The BBC here
More on rollercoasters here, here as well as here

Last Stradivari Pulls Strings Inwards Cremona Court

The Sunday Telegraph reports that Antonia Stradivari, the concluding descendant of the Italian principal violin-maker here and here; brand your ain violin here and here

Holiday Makers To Watch Greek Jails?

The BBC reports that the IFPI is alert vacation makers that they could hold upwards jailed for purchasing pirated CDs inwards Greece, ahead of the Olympic Games inwards August. The grouping has announced its intention to target private buyers in addition to says it has the back upwards of the Greek authorities. In fact, a buyer was sentenced final calendar week to iii months imprisonment afterward he was constitute buying ii illegal CDs. This was the outset fourth dimension an private buyer had been jailed inwards Greece. The IFPI has explained that its previous policy was to larn afterward vendors. However, afterward finding that the Greek government were solely handing them suspended sentences, it decided to pursue private purchasers instead.

While the IPKat realises that buyers should know ameliorate than to purchase copyright-infringing CDs, he thinks imprisonment for private purchases is rather harsh. He’s too disturbed past times the inequality of vendors getting suspended sentences spell private purchasers are targeted for jail sentences.

’s thoughts on the affair here

Watch That French Cuisine, Nurse

Earlier this calendar week inwards Tillery Valley Foods v Channel Four Television [2004] EWHC 1075 (Ch) Mr Justice Isle of Man refused to grant an interim injunction to destination the broadcasting of a boob tube programme which, Tillery alleged, contained confidential data that should non endure publicly aired. Tillery, a subsidiary of French fellowship Sodexho that supplied nutrient to National Health Service hospitals, had been suspected of failing to comply amongst wellness in addition to hygiene standards. Channel Four proposed to broadcast a programme, based on investigative journalism, which contained secretly filmed footage taken past times a journalist who worked undercover equally an employee of Tillery.

Refusing to grant an injunction, the Court took the thought that at that topographic point was no confidential data to protect. Taking the thought that this was a defamation activity inwards disguise, the courtroom considered that the filmed activities did non include anything that could endure characterised equally confidential, for instance merchandise secrets. There was also a human rights issue: nether the Human Rights Act 1998, s.12(3) no injunction would endure granted to foreclose publication where at that topographic point was lilliputian likelihood of Tillery succeeding at the amount trial.

notices that at that topographic point is a fragile residuum of competing populace interests on these facts. There is an obvious populace involvement inwards protecting infirmary patients against beingness poisoned past times bad food; precisely at that topographic point is a countervailing populace involvement inwards patients non beingness discouraged from eating nutrient without which their recovery may endure hampered.

Hospital dinners here and here
Sinister ingredients here