Freespire 2.0 Review
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| Freespire is a great distribution that is being offered to new users of Linux
| who might want to convert form Windows. It is simply designed and not too
| complex and keeps user-friendliness in mind.
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http://gnuman.com/distros/freespire_2.0_review.html
Farewell Gentoo, hello openSuse
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| Now I've copied my mail and stuff back, set up a kde4 development environment
| and actually compiled (*sigh* does it ever end? =;) I should be able again to
| get some work done.
|
| So farewell Gentoo and hello openSuse 10.2!
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http://bertjan.broeksemaatjes.nl/node/16
Related:
Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony resigns
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| Carmony also said his resignation, contrary to some rumors, had nothing to do
| with any disagreement with Linspire's primary owner Michael Robertson, or
| with fallout from either of Linspire's recent deals with Microsoft, which
| covered technology licensing and patent indemnification.
|
| Carmony joined Linspire, then known as "Lindows," in June of 2001 to become
| its president. Later, he became the company's CEO.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8364062244.html
Freespire, Linspire, and Microsoft patents
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| Microsoft denies that this is the case, and argues that, in particular, the
| GPLv3 has nothing to do with it. However, with its July 5 Covenant to
| Customers concerning its Linspire deal, Microsoft is trying to put even more
| distance between any potential patent claims and the GPLv3.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7598947159.html
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| "Q: Novell claims to have not acknowledged any patent infringements by
| Linux. But Novell is now paying a tax to Microsoft on the Linux
| distributions it ships. What, exactly, is Novell paying for?
|
| Nat Friedman: We're paying for the promise that Microsoft made to our
| customers not to sue them.
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|
| Q: Not to sue them for *what*? For problems you don't acknowledge exist?
|
| Nat Friedman: We put together an agreement with Microsoft to make Linux and
| Windows work better together. Now, as everyone knows, Microsoft has spent
| the last 10 years saying negative things about Linux, including implying
| that there are IP issues in Linux. It didn't make sense for us to do a
| partnersihp with Microsoft on interoperability issues and still have this
| patent cloud hanging around for our customers, so Microsoft asked us to put
| together a patent agreement as well. And so we promise Microsoft's
| customers that we won't sue them and they promise the same thing to our
| customers. They pay us for our promise and we pay them for their promise.
| It doesn't matter if the allegations from MSFT are true or not. People can
| sue each other anyway, and a patent lawsuit is very expensive to defend
| against. "
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http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/27/2113210
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