Xandros buys Linspire – What does it mean for Linux? (ITPro)

It cuts off just when it was getting good.  Maybe their editors decided the next 10 paragraphs
praising Fedora's latest release were off-topic.

Though I do have to wonder about the deal between Canonical and Linspire concerning CNR.  The
article dismisses it entirely, but is the concept really dead, or is it walking the earth in
fashionably un-dead style?  For a historical romp through Xandros and Linspire's closet of
skeletons I find the lack of effort to find any substantiating evidence concerning the state
of that CNR partnership with Canonical to be quite disappointing.  If anything the impact of
the merger on the CNR deal with Canonical is one of the only interesting questions concerning
the merger moving forward.   

To be quite honest, the article is an extremely poor read and the content really doesn't match
the headline hook.  It's essentially an editorialized summary of the history of Xandros and
Linspire using easily found existing statements and press releases.  There's very little
insight into what are the important impacts of what's currently going on. And certainly very
little here which says anything about "  What does it mean for Linux?" as the headline would
lead us to believe.

Don't we as a community deserve better attempts at news writing than this. What does the
merger actually mean for us?

-jef