Freespire 2.0 released
Freespire 2.0 released
Posted Aug 9, 2007 8:20 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (guest, #43281)Parent article: Freespire 2.0 released
Can anybody explain this? Freespire is free of cost to download, but contains MP3, WMA etc. codecs. So the Linspire corporation is either not paying a per-seat cost for each installation, or it is paying it out of its own pocket.
Neither option makes much sense to me. Why would Fraunhofer, Microsoft, etc. let Linspire distribute an unlimited amount of copies of codecs for their formats for a fixed sum? Or, if they aren't and Linspire is paying them itself, what sort of business model is that? I mean, if you get all the non-free proprietary stuff in Freespire, why pay for Linspire?
Posted Aug 10, 2007 13:03 UTC (Fri)
by jriddell (subscriber, #3916)
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Microsoft licences codecs to them at no cost as part of the settlement Freespire 2.0 released
for Lindows changing their name to Linspire.