Bluescreen High Res Images*
While I can’t disagree with reasoning why this is bad, I also find it kinda neat that Apple did that in a world full of fake political correctness.
Graphic on the left © Apple, Inc. Inappropriate use of the Windows logo on the right, me.
Having a bluescreen is actually just as recognizable as using the windows logo, which they likely can’t use due to trademark (just like us). The association is just as strong, the metaphor works (Well, if it was the CIFS protocol that was the important bit and not the fact it’s a remote share). BSOD *is* Windows, just like bucket of mayo and a few chips is Belgium even if there’s plenty of countries that consume more of each.
* Some refer to those as icons which I still can’t make myself to.
October 31st, 2007 at 1:36 pm
The BSOD icon/picture is for CIFS shares? D’oh! Well… I would not really associate it with this, more like system error or perhaps a windows VM =)
October 31st, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Why can’t you use a trademark for an operating system, when you’re referring to that operating system? If you’re courteous, you could include the ‘Trademarks are owned by their owner’ nonsense, but I think even that is not a real requirement.
It’s only in Debians ‘Freeer than Free’ vision that using trademarks this way is a problem.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Apple’s Bootcamp product actually used the Windows logo. And I believe if you have windows installed on an intel mac, the HD image for that partition when you boot (holding option) has the windows logo overlayed on it.
October 31st, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Chris, as far as I know, the bootcamp icon featured a mutated windows logo, just like we do in Yast.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:37 pm
You’ve gotta modernize that.
Read error at 0xBA11M3RW4N75Y0URM0N3Y.
Or perhaps a registry key? Right up a sentence about hating google, ROT16 it with leetscript, and put it in curly braces.
They key of course, is an integer dictating days till reinstall. Set it to like, 17.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:50 am
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