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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."
Surely the best thing to do with that domain is to redirect it to www.debian.org? Or maybe knoppix.org at a pinch.
This OpenLindows sounds interesting and I would love to give it a try. I went to the site and they have some software for OpenLindows but I wasn't able to find any links or info on how to download and install OpenLindows. Does anyone else have some information on this?
Merely 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