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Posted by Imhotep on September 5, 2005, 6:52 pm
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"Linspire is giving away its $50 Linspire through Sept. 6, the San
Diego-based company said Thursday after an independent developer changed
the name of his "Freespire" project."
Linsire Web Site: http://linspire.com/
Story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20050902/tc_cmp/170102639
Imhotep
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Posted by Jasp on September 5, 2005, 4:09 pm
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Get it quick!
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Posted by Vanguard on September 5, 2005, 8:25 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > "Linspire is giving away its $50 Linspire through Sept. 6, the San
> Diego-based company said Thursday after an independent developer
> changed
> the name of his "Freespire" project."
>
> Linsire Web Site: http://linspire.com/
>
> Story:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20050902/tc_cmp/170102639
>
> Imhotep
From http://freespire.jasp.com/:
"freespire" was the term I gave to a private project I had been working
on. The project was comprised of various open source components, taken
from the freely available source repository for the Linspire operating
system. Somehow my project got submitted to distrowatch.com as a
bona-fide Linux distribution. I can only assume whoever did this had
good intentions, unfortunately it was done without my consent.
Subsequent widespread distribution of this project has led to much
misunderstanding, based largely on the name. So to make it clear:
This project is not a free version of the Linspire operating system and
is not made by Linspire Inc."
That last part was in big font and red to make sure that the reader
understood what was *his* project and that it was not Linspire. Then he
adds:
"To help alleviate any confusion, I contacted Linspire and they made an
extremely generous offer to us all. They want everyone who has been
following my project to experience "the real" Linspire, FOR FREE!!! For
a limited time, they are making available a coupon code called
"FREESPIRE" that will give you a free digital copy of Linspire! Please
visit http://linspire.com/freespire for details."
Their servers have been so busy that it is likely that this "accidental
throttling" will limit how many users actually get a free copy. Good
luck at the Linspire lottery.
--
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For e-mail, remove "NIX" and add "#LAH" passcode to Subject.
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Posted by Hairy One Kenobi on September 5, 2005, 11:41 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options > "Linspire is giving away its $50 Linspire through Sept. 6, the San
> Diego-based company said Thursday after an independent developer changed
> the name of his "Freespire" project."
Someone wants me to pay $50 for his interpretation of a free Linux distro
(that can't be downloaded)
Haven't laughed so hard since I was told that the super-secure German SUSE
distro isn't from Utah, and (by way of investment) quite possibly banned for
sale in its former originating country.
Not that it's a bad distro, of course - a trusted colleague swears by it.
Although he /was/ kinda bemused to discover that it wasn't actually from
"Urup". Just like I was bemused to discover that the (USAian) RHN was a big
steaming pile of surplus bovine "product". Just goes to show.
--
Hairy One Kenobi
Disclaimer: the opinions expressed in this opinion do not necessarily
reflect the opinions of the highly-opinionated person expressing the opinion
in the first place. So there!
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Posted by hatschi on September 6, 2005, 12:24 pm
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http://www.linspiresucks.com are still available....
Imhotep schrieb:
> "Linspire is giving away its $50 Linspire through Sept. 6, the San
> Diego-based company said Thursday after an independent developer changed
> the name of his "Freespire" project."
>
> Linsire Web Site: http://linspire.com/
>
> Story:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20050902/tc_cmp/170102639
>
> Imhotep
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