This was expected. We will write more about it later, but in the mean time, here are some details.

To me, this looks like Michael, the "captain" of the Linspire ship, sees the boat sinking, so he casually tells the passengers on the ship that he's just going on a quick supply run, jumps on the only life boat with any cash and valuables, paddles off to safety, and leaves everyone else behind to sink. Pathetic.

This leaves us focusing on fewer troublesome distributors that Microsoft exploits to make GNU/Linux not free. ⬆