Comments on: MicroSpire: WWESRD? (What Will E.S.R. Do?)

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:36:45 +0000

I would love to see the reaction from ESR. He has been eerily mute on this one. He has not blogged for months either.

By: Shane Coyle

Shane Coyle — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:26:13 +0000

An update regarding Canonical and Linspire's relationship after the MicroSpire deal, from Mark Shuttleworth himself.

# Ferdinand Says: June 16th, 2007 at 5:45 pm How about Canonicals deal with Linspire and the recent deal Linspire made with Microsoft? Mark Shuttleworth says: It’s likely that Ubuntu users will still get the option to use CNR if they want to. We won’t make CNR a default platform in Ubuntu, but we recognize that user choice is important and it’s not our style to take a punitive position towards derivatives of Ubuntu - they exist to meet specific users needs that we don’t meet, and we exist to provide a platform for our own values. So while I differ deeply from Linspire’s stated position now, I respect their right to choose their own path.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:17:06 +0000

I hope he quits of Freespire because his beliefs or he will be as the hypocrites he hates a lot: Microsoft.

You are the worst nightmare of Microsoft, but you are going to be one of them if not remedy it. Do you will be your own nightmare or prefer to escape of their borg nature?

Microsoft: Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.