On 2008-02-19, Troy Kirkland <kirk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2305046.rOrqeuZxua@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Miscellaneous News
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>> | Kevin Carmony, a controversial former CEO of Linspire who recently
>> switched
>> | his allegiance to Ubuntu, has written an interesting blog entry on the
>> | current state of CNR.com, Linspire's flagship software distribution
>> service.
>> | Since Linspire has not made enough effort to maintain a good working
>> | relationship with Ubuntu, he argues that CNR.com (and, by extension,
>> possibly
>> | even Linspire and Freespire), is likely to fail...
>> `----
>>
>> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080218#news
>>
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> About 95% of the distros available today don't have the resources to compete
> with Ubuntu. Does this mean that Ubuntu Linux has made 95% of all distros
> obsolete?
95% of the distros available today aren't even relevant to 95%
of the end users. So it's a silly thing to day anyways.
Linspire's problems have to do with how Linspire approaches the
world and Linux. They have nothing to do with Ubuntu. This means
at the same time they manage to "not be Linux enough" and "not be
windows enough" putting themselves in an odd and bad spot.
Ubuntu is a sort of no compromises approach to what Linspire
was doing. This means that percieved gains are not made by
sacrificing any appeal to the original core audience.
It's not about "resources".
Contributors are and always have been the key resource. This can
be programmers or the community tech support. The free software
approach is meant to attract and retain these contributors. Those
contributors are who build the system.
I am not sure if Linspire ever quite got this.
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