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LindowsOS Marches On
alphabet26 writes "I just received Lindow's 2001 Wrap-up e-mail, and it looks like they're still forging ahead regardless of the lawsuit Microsoft filed against them. In the update, CEO Michael Robertson included a letter in response addressed to Bill Gates, and also some screenshots of what the new LindowsOS will look like. He predicts the retail version will be available in the early months of 2002."
So can anyone prove that these aren't just screenshots of Windows 2000 with a stardock skin?
...Very nice. It runs Windows and Linux applications. Fantastic.
And exactly WHICH *Linux* applications would I WANT to run?!?
So let's see... I'll pay my $199 for Lindows. I'm cool, I can throw in Max Payne at the same time as The Gimp without using VMWare (which rules by the way, but I digress).
But since I'll be using IE, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Notes, Outlook, etc. all the time, and since they run natively under Windows, what was the point exactly of going with Lindows in the first place?
My point? This does NOTHING to fix the single biggest problem with Linux (aside from it being too damned hard, even for someone with 20 years in the computer field!)... NO COMPELLING APPS!
Why buy this, go through whatever trouble it may or may not be to set up, when Windows does nicely?
Linux zealots are pissed because with the release of Win2K, MS actually has a stable, robust OS (I've heard XP is even better, I haven't taken that plunge yet).
Linux is grasping for straws, this product proves it. It also proves that there are a lot of talented people working on Linux, this is no small feat to have accomplished (assuming it's not vaporware of course). So you guys should do what you do very well, and that's keep pushing on the server side, where user-friendliness doesn't matter as much, where complexity isn't automatically a bad thing. Rule the data center boys, but stop wasting your time trying to steal the desktop from MS.
You can't win, and they actually do it very well nowadays!
I don't care how great a product this is, I hope this Robertson company goes down in flames and he moves on to something else.
I was around on mp3.com when the first RIAA attacks came. I actually beleived his rhetoric of fighting for the movement.
Then he sold out.
He settled. This was bad.
To make it worse, I just visited mp3.com after about a year of not caring. I was spurned by a thread on /. to get back into listening to indie music. Now, half of the fsck'ing songs on the top 40 are RIAA crap! WTF?!?
Yeah, he can pursue money in any way he chooses. But please, Robertson, drop the pretense of actually caring about the causes yo trumpet to the media.
This entire Lindows thing smells of getting VC, giving yourself a huge bonus, then bailing once the courts order you into compliance.
Piss off.
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It's just another attempt from microsoft to sue everything that moves.
Insightful my arse - yet another example of slash-shite.
Look, more power to the guy for trying to create this product. I think it would be incredibly valuable if he pulls it off.
But the freaking name is obviously a rip-off of Windows. There is no question that it would create market confusion. For him to claim otherwise is just nonsense. After all, why call it Lindows if you're not trying to piggyback on Windows?
Look Robertson, just change the name. This is not rocket science. Or is this just some ploy to get free press?
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.