Canonical Ltd., the sponsor of Ubuntu, and Linspire Inc. the developer of Linspire and Freespire, on February 8 announced a technology partnership to integrate with each other's Linux distributions. Linspire/Freespire will be based on Ubuntu, rather than Debian, and Ubuntu will integrate with Linspire's CNR package installer/updater.
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2006-01-03
After reading Linspire's FAQ on the agreement, as well as the comments in this thread, I am left pondering
What does Canonical get out of this? On the surface, it seems that it is only Linspire that profits from the association.