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OpenLindows.com: Wherefore Art Thou?
Joe Barr writes "I ran across a curious website recently: OpenLindows.com. The name alone intrigued me. It gave rise to speculation about a weird mix of free-as-in-beer and free-as-in-speech alternative to the $99/year Click-N-Run software subscription offered by LindowsOS, the most Windows-like/proprietary Linux distribution out there. This is a
report on what I found, and perhaps even more importantly, what I didn't."
For our hero and savior in his own mind Jesus H Asscroft.
All hail Our Big Brother
but can i get it from www.cheaplinuxcds.com???????
for a stellar price??????
I browse at +5 Flamebait- moderation for all or moderation for none.
damn. beat me to it.
A publicly traded company exists solely to make profits for shareholders.
good to see papa joe's still sleuthing about. fussing about won more or less penguin play is not relevant.
.asp for va lairIE's whoreabull pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise?, used against the truth/to protect robbIE's payper liesense stock markup bosses/corepirate nazi 'sponsors'. yuk.
fuddles.con is running linux now. no DOWt about that.
fauxking phonIE payper liesense stock markup FraUD execrable that they remain.
that's right, after the walking dead finish exterminating themselves, & sadly enough, some of us, it won't take long to clean up this cesspool of greed/fear execrable.
we're calling it the planet/population rescue program (formerly unknown as the oil for babies initiatve).
the Godless wons are helping by continuing to show where their hearts lie.
what's wrong with folks selling their kode? if it causes convenience, & interoperates with all the other kode on the planet, we say, no harm, no foul, so long as you fail to employ gangsterious/felonious practices to asphyxiate the 'competition'. sabotaging your free version of anything is a tad dastardly. if there's value added, without FUDging up the compatability, we'll pay. same with music. no more gouging dough though.
fortunately, mr stallman et AL, etcetera, is now offering comparable/superior software, to the payper liesense spy/bug wear feechurned models, in almost every circumstance. there'll be few, if any more softwar billyonerrors, as if there's a need for even won. tell 'em robbIE. you are won of the last wons whois soul DOWt, right?
back on task.
what might happen to US if unprecedented evile/the felonious georgewellian southern baptist freemason fuddite rain of error, fails to be intervened on?
you already know that too. stop pretending. it doesn't help/makes things worse.
they could burn up the the main processor. that would be the rapidly heating planet/population, in case you're still pretending not to notice.
of course, having to badtoll va lairIE's whoreabully infactdead, pateNTdead PostBlock(tm) devise, robbIE's ego, the walking dead, etc..., doesn't slow us down a bit.
that's right. those foulcurrs best get ready to see the light. the WANing daze of the phonIE greed/fear/ego based, thieving/murdering payper liesense hostage taking stock markup FraUD georgewellian fuddite execrable are #ed. talk about a wormIE cesspool of deception? eradicating yOUR domestic corepirate nazi terrorist/gangsters will be the new national pastime.
communications will improve, using whatever power sources are available.
you gnu/software folks are to be commended. we'd be nearly doomed by now (instead, we're opening yet another isp service) without y'all. the check's in the mail again.
meanwhile... for those yet to see the light.
don't come crying to us when there's only won channel/os left.
nothing has changed since the last phonIE ?pr? ?firm? generated 'news' brIEf. lots of good folks/innocents are being killed/mutilated daily by the walking dead. if anything the situations are continuing to deteriorate. you already know that.
the posterboys for grand larcenIE/deception would include any & all of the walking dead who peddle phonIE stock markup payper to millions of hardworking conservative folks, & then, after stealing/spending/disappearing the real dough, pretend that nothing ever happened. sound familiar robbIE? these fauxking corepirate nazi larcens, want us to pretend along with them, whilst they continue to squander yOUR "investmeNTs", on their soul DOWt craving for excess/ego gratification. yuk
no matter their ceaseless efforts to block the truth from you, the tasks (planet/population rescue) will be completed.
the lights are coming up now.
you can pretend all you want. our advise is to be as far away from the walking dead contingent as possible, when the big flash occurs. you wouldn't want to get any of that evile on you.
as to the free unlimited
do people just not have anything to do? i mean come on now... it's like people just put a dictionary in a blender and grab random letters from the shred to come up with an idea for a new project.
All it takes to fly is to hurl yourself at the ground... and miss. -Douglas Adams
now that would: "my $.02 ($5.00 Canadian)"
but enough about me, about my career....
why does the porridge bird lay his eggs in the air?
$99/year Click-N-Run software
*laughs* I read Chick-N-Run, as in the Chicken Run movie.
Remember the innovative hens?
And I was all like.. "What?"
This was very helpful. It helped in solving the memory-access realtime bug which pestered us for weeks.
are the mods DEAD??? mod this informative piece up.
JUST use last non-gpl of WINE vs GPL of WINE!
take the last known non-gpl version of WINE (I have it)
rewrite the parts changed by the best known recent source-code-avaialble version of GPL version of WINE and integrate.
laboriously try to determine waht few enhancements Lindows wine has that neither of the other two lacked and enineer a few changes...
then you have a non-gpl version of a product worth millions of dolalrs to walmart as well.
PROFIT!
its what all the hypocrites do.
there are nearly a hundred open source projects that eventually when proprietary. including databases. (CDDB! , IMDB! , etc)
the "open" world is full of hypocrites and liars.
at least the BSD (freebsd, openbsd, netbsd) guys are not hypocrite liars
cdrecord? HAH! cripple ware so you have to buy the fork with dvd-r!
people get help for BOCHs then bottle it up slowly next.
everyone asks for help from more skilled experts on source forge then stop releasing source.
lindows saga is just one of 100 hypocritical stories.
but THANKFULLY many have the last known non-gpl source of wine and the current open WINE.
too bad no one leaks the proprietary xwine like DOOM 2 sources
lilo: linux init=/bin/bash - Instant root without password
That is why any sensible Linux Admin password protects the bootloader.
I'll study the issue more and post it to the dupe tomorrow.
It cracks me up that the parent was modded as 'Offtopic' where the same comments below (in multiple posts) are +4 informative & insigtful.
I don't moderate and don't gather karma points so let me just verbally acknowledge that for me your post was +2 Interesting from linguistic point of view, although this discussion deviates from the original subject of OpenLindows, giving thus -1 Offtopic.
Many constructs of similar nature are often reproduced independently in unrelated countries/languages. Examples are not provided as I can't type fluently (if at all) with non-English kbd layouts.
I know...it stinks.
It seems that 1/4 or more of Slashdot "stories" are advertisements, not content.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
In Soviet Russia...
They make you read nonsensical replies.