Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Oct 2007 20:34 UTC
Linspire "Former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony was pretty gung-ho about the company's upcoming release back in June. He said it would 'fill some key holes in our current offering'. Unfortunately Linspire 6, released last week, lacks the refinements you'd expect in a distro you pay USD 50 to download. It drops some key distinguishing features, and in return gains only some Microsoft technology as spelled out in the Microsoft patent covenants Linspire agreed to. This release seems to be about deferring to Microsoft."
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RE: RIP Linspire
by Priest on Thu 18th Oct 2007 04:39 UTC in reply to "RIP Linspire"
Priest
Member since:
2006-05-12

>"Another dead distro. Time for Linspire, Micheal Robertson and the rest of the crew to just go away."

Why? They brought some people over from Windows, contributed money to a handful of OSS projects, and the people that didn't like the distro never had to use it.

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RE[2]: RIP Linspire
by arctic on Thu 18th Oct 2007 08:43 in reply to "RE: RIP Linspire"
arctic Member since:
2006-04-19

If you check his account, you will see that he is only a poor, little troll. It is not worth discussing things with him.

I know, it's off topic, but still true.

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