Linked by Michael Valentine on Mon 4th Apr 2005 11:50 UTC
I signed up to become a Lindows Insider (now
Linspire) back in February 2004, after giving Lindows 4.5 Developer Edition a try and walking away very impressed about how far Lindows had come. I was very hesitant plugging down $99.00 for something you could do free with most other Distros which I thought was beta testing and voicing your opinion, but figured I had nothing to lose since they offered a 100% Money Back Guarantee on the program.
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I'm sorry but I still don't get it. If I understand correctly, for $99 you get :
- the right to beta test a product (which will be buggy and use up your time)
- you are required to give feedback, therefore use *your* time again
- Linspire will listen to your requests. Does this mean they don't listen to their other paying customers requests ? Are the people that pay the full price for CNR & Lindows ignored ?
It seems to me like this is a complete rip-off, where Linspire gets ALL the advantages. Actually, this sounds like a clever marketing ploy. Sorta-like a "club" membership, but instead of getting more value you get more trouble. If at least it meant you got free support or something like that then I could see the value, but here it seems that the price is there only to limit the number of participants.