Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Aug 2006 17:05 UTC, submitted by jcpinto
Starting today, Linspire does not only offer a free OS, but also its CNR Basic service. " Linspire, Inc., developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the free community desktop Linux operating system, announced the immediate change in pricing for its popular CNR Service from an annual subscription fee based offering to a completely free service." CEO Carmony said: "We're thrilled to now be in a position to offer this excellent service to desktop Linux users absolutely free. CNR really makes using desktop Linux easy, and we want everyone to have access to this quality service."
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RE: All this is sad and suicidal
by deanlinkous on Wed 30th Aug 2006 22:14
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RE[2]: All this is sad and suicidal
by Paiter on Wed 30th Aug 2006 22:20
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We may wish for that (the small and brave against the big and evil) but the reality is not so romantic. Did you ever read a recent paper about data structures? Now, have you compared that with what is coded (FSF has links to a couple of dedicated libraries) by our friends the Open Source believers?
Now compare.
There is NO space for the small and innocent.
Edited 2006-08-30 22:27
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2006-08-24
The signs are obvious.
Laws of nature cannot be circumvented, no matter how hard we wish they could.
One of the laws, which is the second law of thermodynamics, can be particularized as: "there are no free lunches".
We can make lots of forums to discuss free products, when in fact someone is paying for them. Either the developer itself and his/her family (if he/she still has one) or the tax-payers in certain countries. Finally, some companies pay for it so they can still sell their specific technology. It is just a Trojan horse with a consequence: It won't last.
Then there is the lack of expertise of the "open-source" advocates and coders. Most of the code (not Emacs, but that's it) is poor and sad.
That is why it is given for free, even if the GPL accepts otherwise.
I bought Xandros once, but now I can see how weak they are in the "minor" details such as emails insinuating they are doing great. They are trying to compete without a real product.
Suicide projects such WINE, MONO, GTK's etc show very well the poverty of all this.
Hey: I got a team of 10, lets fetch some people from a poor country (which imagine that this is the way out, instead of trying to find a grant to study abroad) and COPY the product of a multi-billion dollar
company with thousands of Ph.D's.
This will end with tears, of course.
Edited 2006-08-30 22:11