Comments on: Distro Review | Freespire 1.0

By: Kanute

Kanute — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:29:54 +0000

Many thanks Lunixfanboy for this contribution. I was blind and now I see. Anyway i had a lot of doubts when i was writing this post, so many things were not clear, i feel like dumping the whole post. I’ll certainly find some way to repair this.

By: lunixfanboy

lunixfanboy — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:09:44 +0000

You have Linspire and Freespire confused. There is no Five-O Freespire, just the current alphas that use an Ubuntu core, which will be version 2. The completely open-source, non-proprietary version was KILLED by Kevin Carmony a few months ago. There IS no community around this Distro pair, merely those who are allowed to circle the periphery. Even the old-school “Insiders,” who were convinced to pay USD 100 for the “privilege” of beta testing, are no more. This company has taken software made by others, slapped its own brand name upon it, and then had the temerity to accept implied patent liability on behalf of the myriads of developers who actually created the software they dispense. The head of the company, Kevin Carmony, has been publicly called on his two-faced attitude regarding Microsoft (see Linspire Letter of late November and current Letter for the 180-degree turn) and has caused a great many forum members to abandon this distro in disgust. This distro is to be avoided, shunned, and its use discouraged.

By: kazamx

kazamx — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:00:37 +0000

I just can’t bring myself to even look at this Distro. they accepted Microsofts money, in return they are calling out all other Linux users as pirates. Lindows, can rott in Heck

By: Kanute

Kanute — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:56:49 +0000

You’ve probably heard of Lindows, one of the most controversial Linux distributions. Through aggressive marketing and the use of open-source and home-made software they were trying to provide an alternative to Microsoft Windows. After being repeatedly sued by the Redmond firm, they came to arrangement and were paid $20m to change their name. They became Linspire.