Lindows.com - Friend or Foe?

Lindows.com - Friend or Foe?

Your article says that Lindows has contributed to the Open Source
movement.

Lindows has used KDE a lot but contributed very little back. They have
paid a small fee to be member of the KDELeague, a moribund PR effort to
promote KDE in the USA but to my knowledge. They have also sponsored the
hosting of KDELook.org. But, they have never contributed one patch or
line of code to the KDE CVS. They have neither hired or sponsored one KDE
lead developper. For a wealthy startup like Lindows, what they have done
is trinket.

In my opinion, a company selling open source and using the huge pool of
GPL code should add some water to the pool by contributing some code.
That is the acid test.

In this view, they have been and are bad citizens of the Open Source
community. Until they pass the acid test, we should promote other
distributions.