Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jul 2007 12:49 UTC, submitted by Captain Pirate
"We can read the Linspire-Microsoft patent agreement now, or more precisely Microsoft's 'Covenant to Customers', and I thought it would be worthwhile to give it a close, line-by-line reading. I'll explain it as best I can, but ask your lawyer if it matters to you in a real-world sense. For our purposes here, let's just have fun with the worst deal I've seen yet in this category."
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2006-06-21
Considering how bloody stupid Linspire seems to have been to agree to those terms, humor and sarcasm seems a good approach to the issue. Beats bitterness, anger and so on.
Because if we didn't have humor we'd have to react badly to such deeply sad stuff. It was a commercial Linux distribution which had a decent following and had managed some interesting services with CNR and whatnot, in a time when established commercial Linux distro's that target end users can be counted on the fingers of one hand... And they had to throw it all away. For their sake, I hope it was worth it, because it sure doesn't seem that way from here.