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Why we must fight Linspire
Lindows/Linspire is exactly what I wouldn't have wished to Linux for several reasons:
1) Linspire doesn't bring anything new to Linux, appart this pseudo-commercial hyper around it. Mandrakelinux, Fedora, SuSE, & others do really good desktop products with similar (or better) features and online services (including many ones which are free).
2) Linspire is a closed product. They think they can challenge Windows & Microsoft by adopting similar strategies, by trying to close open-source code, which is ridiculous and has no future.
3) Linspire tries to imitate the worse of Windows : open door to viruses (default root account), adoption of closed formats instead of open and public formats.
4) Linspire is a project started by a guy (Michael Robertson) which can lose much money for an OS dream with absolutely no open-source vision (and no technological vision at all).
As a result, Linspire is in my opinion a closed-world project that we must fight, because it's exactly what Linux should never become.
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