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Lindows gets into retail
Lindows has announced the opening of Sub500.com, a physical retail store in Toronto which will sell computers with Linspire preinstalled.
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Lindows gets into retail Posted Jun 23, 2004 15:38 UTC (Wed) by rjamestaylor (guest, #339) [Link] Would the location, Toronto, Canada, have any relation to a potential settlement or business deal with Ottowa, Canada-based Xandros, with whom they are litigating? Or is it not strange for a San Diego-based company to open its first retail store so far away and in a different country?
Lindows gets into retail Posted Jun 23, 2004 19:11 UTC (Wed) by joedrew (subscriber, #828) [Link] Firstly, it's Ottawa. Sub500.com has, by their own admission, been in business since 1988. This is not a new development except that, I suppose, they are treating Linspire as the canonical operating system for their systems.
Location Posted Jun 23, 2004 19:30 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] "Firstly, it's Ottawa." Hmm...from the press release: "The store is located at 2930 Dufferin Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada."
Location Posted Jun 23, 2004 19:39 UTC (Wed) by joedrew (subscriber, #828) [Link] Err, no, that was my indignant reply to the original poster's comment of "Xandros, located in Ottowa." :)
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