Linspire 6.0 Released - Now with Patent Protection!

Shane Coyle

2007-10-10 17:55:52 UTC
Modified: 2007-10-10 17:55:52 UTC

I'm not going to spend much time talking about a completely irrelevant distro, but for the sake of completeness of coverage...

San Diego, CA - October 10th, 2007 - Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, today announced the immediate availability of Linspire 6.0, the latest commercial release of the desktop Linux operating system. Building on the best of open source software using Ubuntu as its base line, Linspire 6.0 adds licensed proprietary drivers, codecs, and software in its core distribution to provide a better user experience. The first commercial release from Linspire, Inc. in over two years, Linspire 6.0 continues its traditional focus on ease-of-use and bundles proprietary software where there are no viable open source alternatives, providing improved hardware, file type, and multimedia support, such as MP3, Real, Java, Flash, ATI, nVidia, WiFi, and many more. Linspire 6.0 is also the first commercial release to incorporate several technologies from Microsoft including Windows Media, True Type Fonts, as well as Open XML translators that allow OpenOffice to open and edit Microsoft Word .docx formatted documents.

Well, this should be a boon for the folks from Linspire, as it is well known throughout the Free World that the biggest impediment to GNU/Linux adoption has been an overwhelming fear of potential IP infringement suits from our friends in Redmond, in addition to the lack of "Times New Roman" by default. Right.

Comments

Serenitude

2007-10-10 22:25:50

And are they using any GPLv3 code or programs?
Crevete

2007-10-11 09:00:13

Codecs, Real, Java, Flash, ATI, nVidia, WiFi. Wow, if this was back in 1997 I would probably buy it.
Dan Laskowski

2007-11-01 03:06:16

Well if this is true then I will rename Ubuntu as Dabuntu and charge $50 for it and copyright it !!!

Dan

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