Submission + - "Vista" name patented by a french TV produ (20minutes.fr)
Microsoft was contacted multiple times about the name conflict, but declined to comment.
Will the Redmond software company offer a Novell-like "patent-protection" to the french producer, enabling him to use Linux on his VHS recorder? Will P. Gildas surrender to heavy monetary bombing? Will future U.S.A. president McCain (and his Ballmer sidekick) discover WMD hidden in Gildas' office, next to his written admission of ties with french-fries eating terrorists?"