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An initiative of Lindows a free Linux-pc way to give at everybody that via them a discount coupon of Microsoft requests, has been shot by the softwaregiant in the wrong gullet. In a letter at Lindows-boss Michael Robertson demands Microsoft that the MSFreePC-website at the same time are closed.,. The writing stilt furthermore that the discount coupons, that frames in an agreement in a Californische antitrustrightcase against MS, not online requested may become.

The MSFreePC-site is a new dispute point between Microsoft and Lindows, a software business that on agressive manner a desktopvriendelijke Linux sells as Windows-alternative. The pair has been involved in a trial about the use of the name Lindows (that according to MS surplus on 'Windows' appears), and furthermore is Robertson the sponsor of a hackwedstrijd the protection of the Xbox out to get.

Lindows' newest PR-stunt is yet no week old. There became a site opened that the inhabitants of Californi the occasion gave the discount coupon procedure via an online form in to set. Moreover the first 10,000 persons get, that their bump use for purchases by Lindows, a free pc with the LindowsOS on.

According to the lawyers of Microsoft shorten there a lot at the site. On a number of points will the internet form legally absolutely not in order be, among many because a request signed must be, what online cannot.,. Moreover is the site so constructed that he fraud in the hand works, means MS.

Lindows gets to take till the end of Monday the site from the air. Microsoft threatens with further steps as that not lifted.