Linked by Adam S on Mon 14th Feb 2005 05:10 UTC
This past week, Linspire showed the first public demo of Linspire Five-0. I was lucky enough to play with it for the last week, and within, you'll find a detailed walkthrough of what's new with Linspire.
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"On the subject of DVDs, I could not find a way to play any DVDs on my Linspire system. I later discovered that in order to download the Linspire DVD Player, one must cough up another 4.95."
Oh the horror! Who could possibly fathom the concept of having to pay for software in the Linux world? This is exactly why the commercial software makers won't touch Linux with a 40 foot pole. Everyone wants everything for free.
"Of course, we can all agree that this is a ridiculous way for a DVD to work, and of course, it will only play the .vob file you click on. How can this be that a commercial OS doesn't include DVD playback?"
Yes. All of us. We surveyed the planet and found that 5 billion people all agreed with the author. It makes perfect sense to me why Lindows would want to make their commercial DVD product a separate purchase just see point 1 above. If they included it in the OS by default everyone would pirate the shite out of it and Lindows would be paying millions in licensing fees for the commercial DVD codecs. It's really not that big of a deal to spend $5 bucks on a DVD player is it?! If it is --then you can kiss goodbye all hope that a company like Adobe is going to come along and make a Linux version of Photoshop.