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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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by Moulinneuf on Mon 4th Apr 2005 22:22 UTC

"I'm really sorry but I have a lot of trouble believing you"

You dont have to belive me at all , confirm it by yourself ...

"I have a lot of trouble believing you are doing anything than flaming."

Learn what flaming is , its never going to be pointing out flaw and asking that they raise the visibility to make more income.

"How can you expect us to believe you have 50 people working for you analyzing Linspire ?"

They report to me , I dont have 50 people working for me doing that , I have 50 people then when they see something they think I havent seen about Linspire they forward it to me. its a two way exchange I provide information back to them in return.

"Even stock market analysts do not assign as many resources on studying *one* company. "

Many stock market analyst fail at there predicition due to this ...

"Sure Linspire has had problems with it's image."

I havent spoke of there image.

"I do partly agree that they could do a better job about communicating what they have contributed."

Not my point , its nice that they contribute , everyone should do it , but there wording is meant to imply they are sponsors and contributor when most of the time they are only donator and that others do less.

"Why is it that Lsongs and Lphotos are open-source but that we don't see them in other distributions ?"

Someone at Linspire aint doing its job properly , I think they are in SuSe do , not sure ...

"You can now use Lsongs to purchase music directly from MP3tunes for just 88 cents a song or $8.88 for a full album. "

Of course the above income from all the GNU/Linux distribution would not be nice ... why do you think apple released I-tune for windows ...

"Are they too branded ?"

Probably , but there is probably a possibilty to rebrand it for others , so that point is not really what mathers , what mathers is the lost income not generated by the others using it.

"NVU seems to be doing better in that regard"

You might be on to something ...

"and seems to have been very successful. "

Depends on how you quantify succesful.

" I'm sure that Linspire is also working with OpenOffice"

they sale OOoFf! , working with OpenOffice ? would be news to me.

" I still like Michael Robertson's general direction"

Not quite there in my opinion , but one as to admire is way of actually getting some job done and implemting a release on it. Too bad he dont see why is company fail and the big picture.

" and they are DEFINITELY on the right track for building a Linux distribution that is really easy to use !"

They dont deserve all the credit , GNU/Linux improve by a 2 year commercial leap every 6 month.