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Linspire Accused Of Misusing Creative Commons Art
SuperDuG writes "Seems that intellectual property and copyright laws are something that Linspire still doesn't seem to have a firm grasp of. Their flash intro has with it some popular Linux images made by a rather talented artist. An email to Klowner was the first notice he ever got about the images being hijacked, not once has Linspire requested permission to use these images in their ad campaign. They seem pretty similar to me, you be the judge."
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I bet SCO must be kicking themselves for not going after Linspire instead of.. well, just about everyone else.
SCO would have had a field day considering Linspires shameless rip-offs (first "Lindows", then Apple's software _and_ web-site, and now this).
Had they gone after Linspire, there might actually have been people believing their ludicrous claims considering Linspires track-record..
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oh well. not like misuse of moderation is a new thing here...
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