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Lindows Changes Name to 'Linspire'

Posted by timothy on from the bully-meets-showoff dept.

Robert Nicholson writes "As previously covered, Lindows has decided to change its name thanks to Microsoft legal threats. Well it has just announced the new name - Linspire - clever, huh? There's a site at Linspire.com. The full story and the history behind it all are covered on Techworld."

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  1. Re:Linspire? by IceAgeComing · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    It doesn't matter. I woke up this morning after having a lucid dream about the future. Linux WILL RULE over all. IT CANNOT BE STOPPED.

    Today, I'm burning KnoppixMAME for a number of friends and family. It's over. LINUX...SCORES....FATALITY...

    Or maybe I've just had too much coffee this morning. That could definitely be true.

  2. Re:Little guys can't fight a giant... by stubear · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Damnit, I meant 'Windows', not 'Windos'. I guess /. will get an edit post for the next x number of minutes sometime after they design an HTML, or better yet CSS, compliant site. What am I saying, Microsoft will release the source code to Windows long before that happens.

  3. Re:Linspire? by ites · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The lucid dream is correct, you're just catching the wave slightly ahead of the masses. I just came back from 2017 and they're quite amazed when I told them / will tell them that in 2004 people are still debating whether Linux "can make it". They say (and this is pretty much a direct quote) "did no-one think to ask whether Windows could make it?" And then they all say "Darwin" in unison and giggle shyly. Something to do with a terrible epidemic in 2005 that wiped out 75% of the world's computers and turned posession of Microsoft binaries or source code into a crime in 104 countries. Apparently some labs still have copies of Microsoft's code archive but it's kept strictly locked up. Oh, yes, and in 2017 computer programs swap their DNA... it's called "sexware". The concept of "distribution" has vanished since every PC effectively has a unique combination of software, which creates good resistance against parasites. Approximately 75% of all software is parasitical and lives a semi-independent life on the net. You'll be amused to learn that sexware evolved in about 2010 from the apt package manager during the big Linux virus attacks.

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