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Linspire 5.0 Free For Limited Time
drunkennewfiemidget writes "The people at Linspire are giving Linspire 5.0 away for free (digital download only) until September 6th. Simply go to purchase the $49.95 digital edition, and then enter coupon code 'freespire' to receive a $49.95 discount." From the site: "'Freespire' was the term Andrew Betts gave to a private project he had been working on. The project comprised various open source components, taken from the freely available source repository for the Linspire operating system...Linspire has no problem with anyone using the open source code from our operating system - in fact we applaud such projects. The name Freespire, however, did create some confusion in the short time it was used...We thought it would be fun, for all of those who were looking at this project to experience a true 'Freespire', to give away a free digital copy of Linspire for a few days!"
It's good that they did. It has allowed the tradition and pure power of BeOS to still be usable today.
And then there's always Zeta OS. I would hardly call BeOS "dead".
To suggest that Linspire will go the way of Be, Inc. is to flaw.
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Crap,(Score:1,Redundant)
If you say "here goes my karma" I will bite you!!!
There goes your Karma
right on.
my browser only supports analog downloads.
Versus DIGITAL downloads (in the article). Why are mods so quick to mod people down? Hell, I don't mind seeing that comment, was it so bad that he HAD to be modded down? I know this isn't going to change anything, but people, only mod down when there's something you feel is very unacceptable, not one-liners that seem offtopic.
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Thought this would be a good post to air out my views on Software firms charging subscriptions for software (no sure linspire does this, but I know Opera & the OSS drivers do).
I whole heartedly agree with paying for software which I use on a regular basis/prefer, but would great software manufacturers PLEASE stop forcing the loyal users to have their money leeched away for the REST OF THEIR LIVES for the 'priviledge' of being allowed bug fixes/updates?!!
All this does is turn away users (like it did with me, Norton, and probably opera once my educational license expires..). Sofware should be a One-time fee in 'most' cases (maybe vital server software for administrators/companies..but not for casual home user applications)...I would like to know that I can leave a box for 50 years, come back to it at some later point, and just update without having to shell out my credit card - it's just a form of making a system obselete, and it's not very respectful to people who use your software out of all the competition. Also, I can see hypothetically (or perhaps paranoidly) that sofware manufacturers will just keep old bugs until the next Subscription update as a form of forcing people to upgrade of face extreme viral consequences (I've heard people accuse Microsoft of doing this). IT IS NOT COOL, AND MAKES PEOPLE HESITANT TO GET TRAPPED WITH YOUR SOFTWARE.
Like I said, this is not particularly aimed at Linspire (an OS is clearly a 'major app'), but is still applicable.
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