[hdhzy]

Yes, but names starting with a trademark are a no-no. See [0] (bitcrazed works on WSL) and [1]. Also IANAL.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13697918

[1]: https://www.andreas-jung.com/contents/dont-use-docker-in-git...

[mustpax]

In that case Windows Linux Subsystem seems like a good compromise.

[criddell]

Shouldn't that be Windows' Linux Subsystem?

[throwaway91111]

It's never going to happen.

:(

[dheera]

How about "Windex"? Oh wait ...

[squarefoot]

And sometimes even parts of a trademark can be risky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire

[Someone1234]

Unclear what you think that proves. Microsoft paid $20m to buy their trademark and they changed their name.

[squarefoot]

Yes, it went well for Linspire, still it attracted a lawsuit, and the reason they didn'tlose wasn't because Lindows is different from Windows but because "windows" was a generic term already used as such by Microsoft itself.

I wonder what would have happened if the MS product was called say WinOS and the other one LinOS, where none of the terms are common words so that similarity would be the only matter.

[greglindahl]

I thought that both "Windows" and "Linux" were trademarks?

[lmitchell]

Presumably Microsoft is allowed to use Windows wherever they please ;)

[simonh]

Since they are saying it is 'for Linux' rather than it is Linux, I suppose they are probably ok, although the system doesn't contain or even work with any parts of Linux itself in any way.