____/ Peter Köhlmann on Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:23 : \____
> Kier wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:38:06 +0200, Peter Köhlmann wrote:
>>
>>> Kier wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:50:59 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I think it's a bit different from Linspire because Linspire had a
>>>>> wealthy founder and an actual company behind it. By the way, Freespire
>>>>> 2.0.4 (IIRC) was released a few days ago, but I no longer post much
>>>>> Linspire and Xandros news here. They are traitors (the software equiv.
>>>>> of treason) and they will gradually run out of business. Microsoft paid
>>>>> them many millions to choose this route.
>>>>
>>>> So, all the hard working developers and satisfied users of Linspire and
>>>> XandrOS are traitors, are they? Nice language. I'm sure they'll be
>>>> overjoyed to hear that.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, they don't listen to the GPL3 god.
>>
>> They don't seem to be going out of business, either.
>
> I shure hope so. Diversity is an asset for linux, not a liability
> As much as the GPL3 cultists want to make believe that only their god is the
> right one, and any other thinking is the direct way to MS-hell
What does GPLv3 have to do with this? You've transformed this debate into
something which it is not.
>> XandrOS is Debian-based, I believe. I tried it once, it was okay, but by
>> that time I had a fair bit of Linux experience, and it was obviously
>> designed for people wanting an immediate drop-in replacement for Windows,
>> so its target market didn't really include me any more.
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