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[News] Lispire Fails in a Market It Never Truly Understood

  • Subject: [News] Lispire Fails in a Market It Never Truly Understood
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 04:34:50 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Linspire executives exodus?

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| In the last 12 months, Linspire has made moves that brought it both praise 
| (such as its decision to base future versions of its Linuxes on Ubuntu and 
| opening up of CNR to other distributions) and condemnation (its patent 
| partnership with Microsoft) from the Linux user community.    
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS2690081391.html


Related:

Freespire, Linspire, and Microsoft patents

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| Microsoft denies that this is the case, and argues that, in particular, the 
| GPLv3 has nothing to do with it. However, with its July 5 Covenant to 
| Customers concerning its Linspire deal, Microsoft is trying to put even more 
| distance between any potential patent claims and the GPLv3.   
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7598947159.html


Linspire pays the cost of Volish agreement 

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| The spin is that users of Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org will 
| be able to more easily share files, as documents will better. In 
| reality it will mean that the ODF standard could become less 
| popular even among Linux users.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40711

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