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Lindows becomes Linspire
Lindows has announced that its distribution (formerly known as "LindowsOS") is now called "Linspire." Perhaps this means we are done with tiresome "Lindows v. Microsoft" press releases now.
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Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 14, 2004 15:19 UTC (Wed) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop; i.e., when the amount they have to pay Microsoft is revealed, and all those suck^H^H^H^Hcustomers who bought into "Lindows", n.k.a. "Linspire", find out that, say, "Linspire" got sold to EMI for an undisclosed amount, and how suddenly Microsoft products are showing up there for fee-based download.....
Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 14, 2004 16:43 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] "Linspire"? Dear me. Can you GET any more marketroidish?Yeesh. Think I'll stay over here in non-suit land, where distros have names like "Debian" and "Gentoo" and "Red Hat" and the like. Linux distros should have fun names, not names that reek of focus grouping and Madison Avenue.
Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 14, 2004 17:44 UTC (Wed) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] Bah... It is much better than Lindows, at least Linspire pays homage to Linux andDebian (Debian logo is a spiral) on which it is based, instead of referring to that pity excuse for an OS it pretended to take market-shares. Could we really expect more ?
Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 14, 2004 20:56 UTC (Wed) by job (guest, #670) [Link] I agree. 'Linspire' is really the better name. 'Lindows' was a ridicolousplay on 'Windows' and much harder to take serious.
Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 15, 2004 4:48 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] Well, it may be a "better" name, but that's damning with faint praise, you know. :-)
Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 14, 2004 21:02 UTC (Wed) by blayne (guest, #19468) [Link] I was rooting for the name to be changed to MSsux. That wouldn't be a legal problem, would it?What are they gonna do? Sue on the basis of definition of character?
Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 14, 2004 21:31 UTC (Wed) by jdub (subscriber, #27) [Link] Heh. Linspire. Lin-SPIRE. Cathedral development of a Linux distribution. Suits. :-)
Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 15, 2004 13:53 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] Yeah---suits. And according to Robertson, those suits wind up getting their suits(!) worked out in front of people who wear dresses....What amazes me is that two companies run by people with asparaging attitutes toward government wound up..... ....fighting in front of a bunch of governments....
Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 15, 2004 14:17 UTC (Thu) by ccchips (guest, #3222) [Link] ...er....disparaging
Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 15, 2004 21:24 UTC (Thu) by jehrmin (guest, #20940) [Link] I would have voted for the name of "Windom".
Lindows becomes Linspire Posted Apr 20, 2004 17:14 UTC (Tue) by fishyfool (guest, #21052) [Link] I would have gave Redmond a little hat tip, and called it Konspire instead of Linspire
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