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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!"
yay!
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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.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
Crap,(Score:1,Redundant)
If you say "here goes my karma" I will bite you!!!
There goes your Karma
To continue your pedantic bent, flaw is a noun. Please do not verb nouns. Thank you,
-the grammer police.
Emily is a Web Developer and a second year Houston Texans Cheerleader who has always loved to dance. As a little girl she wanted to be a prima ballerina but quickly changed her mind as soon as she saw the Solid Gold Dancers. Ah, how the glitz and glamour caught this little one's eye.
Her father was a pilot in the Air Force so by her fourteenth birthday, Emily had lived in Nebraska, California, Japan, Germany and then back to California before finally settling down in Houston. All of this moving around has made her family very close and given them a "stick together no matter what" mentality. Her fondest memories are of performing in dance recitals with her sister, acting in Japanese commercials with her brother and traveling across Europe in the family's RV. Emily's green eyes light up and she giggles as she says, "If a movie was made about my life it would definitely be a comedy!" Everything from getting robbed in Italy, to the RV catching on fire somewhere in the south of France, to the time they drove about half a mile down a narrow mountain pass in Switzerland only to find that the road dead ended with no possible way to turn around. Sorry Mr. Chase, but The Griswald's European Vacation is no match for this family's travels.
Emily's mother, an avid art buff, made sure that if there was a museum or architectural landmark within 100 miles they would go. This must have paid off because Emily has received national awards in art and design and earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Southwest Texas State University.
She enjoys her busy lifestyle and recently got engaged to her best friend, a fellow computer nerd who piqued her interest three years ago when he randomly quoted a line from one of her favorite childhood movies, Spaceballs.
Emily, an enthusiastic sports fan, loves being a Houston Texans Cheerleader and admits that it's "way cooler than she could have ever imagined." Very cool indeed. Emily has had the great honor of pinning a Purple Heart on a wounded soldier, appearing in a commercial that debuted during the SuperBowl and was chosen as the 2004 Houston Texans Cheerleader Magazine cover girl.
So while the Solid Gold Dancers may be just a memory, the Houston Texans Cheerleaders are here to stay, and Emily is extremely proud to be a part of their legacy.
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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