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To: SeekAndFind

Odd choice of names, since there is a Midori browser for Linux.


5 posted on 01/04/2014 8:57:41 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: bigbob
This isn't new news, folks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_%28operating_system%29

> Odd choice of names, since there is a Midori browser for Linux.

Do you think Microsoft cares? LOL.

Microsoft doesn't give a rat's rear end for other people's names, trademarks, etc. There was already a software company with a product named "Vista" when MS came out with that disaster of an OS, MS just stepped all over the existing outfit, and then the total failure of MS's Vista crushed the usefulness of the smaller company's product name.

"Midori" means "Green" in Japanese, and is in use for LOTS of things. There won't be any challenge to MS on that.

10 posted on 01/04/2014 9:10:05 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: bigbob

Thanks for tip on Midori.

I am a long time user of XFCE on 2 different platforms. Love it. Love the simplicity and speed.

Have used Firefox since it began. Used several other open source browsers before that.

I would hate to give up the access to all the plug-ins.

But will look at it.

Thinking about reloading from scratch my Xubuntu install on this machine. And suggestions on the OS? Have looked at Mint, not sure on that.


27 posted on 01/04/2014 9:28:32 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: bigbob

It’s a code name; it would get a new name when released to the public.


36 posted on 01/04/2014 10:28:06 PM PST by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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