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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Well I see a lot of people ripping on Linspire because they're cheap like me or they just can't concieve what they'd be paying for. But give the guy a break... He's talking about his personal experience with it.
I'd just like to point out just incase nobody else remembers, that the owner of Linspire (formally Lindows) wasn't just some Joe developer, and he wasn't just a regular Bill Gates either. In fact, you could say he's located somewhere right in between. He sold mp3.com to Cnet and picked up a nice chunk of cash (at least a million $ from what I remember) and decided to create a linux distro with that money. I'm sure he's taken a big hit in the wallet taking a chance like this so although many users don't agree with their business model, I believe they've got to make their money back some how, and attempting to provide a proper linux desktop distro for windows users to switch over should earn them a few bucks from the few who will actually need it. For the rest of us, we've got our hands full deciding from other linux distros are right for us.