Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Oct 2007 20:34 UTC
"Former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony was pretty gung-ho about the company's upcoming release back in June. He said it would 'fill some key holes in our current offering'. Unfortunately Linspire 6, released last week, lacks the refinements you'd expect in a distro you pay USD 50 to download. It drops some key distinguishing features, and in return gains only some Microsoft technology as spelled out in the Microsoft patent covenants Linspire agreed to. This release seems to be about deferring to Microsoft."
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I was a subscriber to Linspire/Lindows, it was actually my first foray into Linux. after a disastrous experiance with Redhat, Lindows was my testing machine for a while, migrating to Xandros for a time, then back for the 5-0 release, back and forth. I checked out Freespire, and the new Freespire 2.0 (Linspire 6's free cousin) but none of them suit me anymore.
They used to have drive and direction, now they are another me too distro.
Sure they can read proprietary formats out of the "box" but hell, in one click I can to in Gutsy. Too much loss, not enough gain.