i sorta think this is cool, this will prevent name stealers and backwards portings (thats what they call it) to happen all over the place and especially when it comes to OS's , windows belongs on x86 etc , linux belongs on every hw there is (more or less) , mac belongs on ppc hw...
why would you think that backwards porting is a bad thing?
backwards porting as you call it, provides a valuable service to the consumer. in this case if windows was the be all and endall of OS's then why would any one want to use Lindows? But as we all know it is not. hence the market has created the need for somthing else. for windows to truly win it must show itself to be the superior product, the fact that MS prefers to pay its lawyers than its programers should be an answer in its self. but if people are using Lindows then it muist be a beter product in some way than windows, to those people.
is that a bad thing?
