On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:51:05 -0500, Jeffrey Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes most of my beefs with Linspire and now MP3beamer are with their > marketing and lack of providing anything of substance while providing a > charge on something you can get for free. I do not like the distro myself either, I do not the default as root user etc. However, Lindows/Linspire has in fact made signifigant contributions to Linux. I have helped several people out with Fedora who did not even know what Linux was until they bought a Linspire computer at Wallmart. In that respect, it is a gateway distribution - and the users are free to switch distro's if they want to, there is no lockin. Lindspire also has done signifigant work on a GUI html editor. Yes, it is based on code from Mozilla Composer, but they took that code and extended it and actually have a very nice product. Linspire managed to get the necessary licensing rights to include a legal DVD player, etc. I'm not fond of how the distribution works, I don't like some of the solutions to common newbie issues they have come up, but the fact is that they ARE coming up with solutions, and that is something I have to respect. That being said, this is a slim devices discussion list, not a "why this distro or that distro" discussion thread. The beautiful thing about GPL is that if you don't like a company, you can get the products from another. -- http://mpeters.us/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
