“Lindows.com, which sells an operating system designed to
compete with Windows in the consumer PC market, is sticking by its
original announcement of an ‘AOL computer’, despite AOL Time
Warner’s claim that the way the deal was described was
‘misleading’.“AOL last week distanced itself from the Lindows PC, saying ‘AOL
has nothing to do with it’, and saying that Lindows.com had only
filled out a one-page form allowing it to distribute the Netscape
7.0 browser, something it has in common with more than 70,000 other
organizations.“On Thursday, however, Lindows suggested that AOL might not have
its facts straight. ‘Our engineers have been to Dulles, Virginia,
and have worked with AOL,’ said Lindows’ public relations director,
Cheryl Schwarzman. ‘It may be the case that the spokesperson was
not informed of that information…'”
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