Star Linspire and the Insider Program
Linked by Michael Valentine on Mon 4th Apr 2005 11:50 UTC
Linspire 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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Benefits of Insider Program
by Anonymous on Mon 4th Apr 2005 17:23 UTC

I don't understand the venom against Kevin Carmony. I think it's good that a President of the company tracks his company and responds online.

Insiders do get benefits as Mr. Carmony referred to such as CNR membership, invites to special parties, tickets or discounts to Desktop Summit, free MP3beamer software, etc. I don't think he listed them out to make sure it didn't seem like a big advertisement.

Linspire is a HUGE open source contributor in money and code. They are investing millions if not tens of millions in making linux usable by mass market and getting stores to carry it. That's a good thing.