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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noone here said they violate the gpl. noone hates them because they are "evil".
here is why i dont like linspire:
they charge money for apt-get.
not only apt-get, but a very small subset of whats available if you go the free route. i would have the same issue if ubuntu charged for sid. sure, its legal, but its not too ethical. They also have bad history in dealing with open projects. granted, they have been working quite hard to change that image, but the oss community is like an elephant, it doesnt forget.
On the flipside, n|vu is quite nice, and mp3beamer looks neat, although I dont think the market is quite ready for something like that yet.
but hey, i dont take any success that they have as a personal insult. a fool and his money, and all that...
but lets actually look at what Moulinneuf said:
They say "we are doing great" quite loudly at every oppertunity to anyone who will listen, but they really arnt.
The link the president pointed to as evidence that they are all a-bustle with activity is filled with marketing fluff.
They claim that the insiders get compensated, he asked for something substancial saying that. He makes a very good point that it looks like linspire charges people for beta testing. unlike him, i dont get upset about that. (refer to the quote about a fool and his money)
the president said that they offer a money back guarentee on everything they sell, Moulinneuf posted a link to a liscence agreement that says otherwise. Someone is lieing here, the linspire website, or kevin carmony.
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Honestly, linspire seems like one of the billion "whats the point?" distros out there. if they actually manage to make an idiot-proof linux that still has all the power and flexibility that linux offers, ill change my tune and start singing their praises. I dont think that will ever happen for any distro, and I think if it did we would lose alot of what makes linux rock so hard. But hey, these are personal opinions.