Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 23rd Jan 2007 19:09 UTC, submitted by Adam S
"Linspire announced plans to standardize software installation across Linux distributions by expanding its popular CNR digital download and software management service to support several of the most popular desktop Linux distributions in 2007. Previously available only for Linspire and Freespire desktop Linux users, the CNR Service will begin providing users of other desktop Linux distributions a free and easy way to access over 20000 desktop Linux products, packages and libraries."
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2005-07-08
I made sure to mention that the CNR client plugin is OSS, but the server is not. I knew someone would bring that up if I didn't. So I tried to spell it out. I guess you just didn't read the one sentence I purposefully set off from the rest as its own paragraph.
Let me say it again... the server part of CNR is NOT OSS. It doesn't really matter if the client is OSS. There are many situations where we have to connect to proprietary services to get on with our lives, and it doesn't matter one lick if the client we use to connect to it is free software. It still sucks. If anything, I'd rather use a fancy proprietary client to connect to a free service than the other way around.