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prostoalex writes "The low-cost Linux PC market so far dominated by Lindows got a new entrant. According to News.com, Linare plans to sell a $199 no-monitor model with 1GHz VIA CPU, 128MB RAM, 20GB HDD, KDE, OpenOffice. An extra $50 would get the user upgraded to a 2GHz Athlon. Company is located in beautiful Bellevue, WA, which, as News.com noted, is quite close to another Seattle suburb - Redmond, WA."
Well according to this page, their email client is KMail, the increasingly popular Outlook -styled-email.
While I applaud their efforts, and I am sure I am nit-picking, wouldn't it be like a Eudora-styled-email-client, or at least an Outlook Express-styled-email-client? I mean Outlook is more like a complete Personal Information Manager (PIM), for better or worse...
People berated the guy who developed the Linux router distribution because he expected financial gain from writing OSS. How is this different? The GPL makes so stipulation to contributing back (other than source changes) to the community. If they want to simply sell a PC and say to hell with the OSS developers, so be it.
More precisely, every one of these systems sold is a linux user for about 30 minutes, until the buyer realizes they have to pay some yearly fee (such as Lindows' Click-n-Run) or can't run any games. Then the hard drive is wiped and that warez version of windows is installed.