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Linspire CEO Offers S. Korea To Replace Windows
Spy der Mann writes "Noticing the Microsoft threat to withdraw Windows from South Korea, the Linspire CEO, Kevin Carmony, just offered to license every computer in the country with Linspire, for just $5m. This would be around 10 cents / person. 'South Korea could save around a quarter of a billion dollars. More importantly, however, it would break South Korea loose from the monopolistic grasp of Microsoft, which the country currently finds itself under,'"
...innovation from MS :-)
I do not take this serious. If it was a serious offer you would not take it to the press like this. So this is only a marketing attempt to incite the impression that Linspire competes with Windows which in fact is not true. Nobody in Korea wants Linspire. However Linspire uses KDE which is the right choice for the desktop from my perspective. But when I want a KDe distribution I will take Mandrake or Suse which are better and for free. So... Btw: What was the name of that Korean Office Suite for Linux? Linspire: Vapor marketing plus media campaign against "evil Microsoft" (which press like so much). What a joke of a company! What gave trust in Linspire were support for the Wine Conf and the like. But Linspire started with a Vapour-announcement to support Win-Apps which turned out to be a simple investment in Wine. But Linspire broke this promise. They did not really support Wine. So I cannot take them serious anymore. Now Wine is 0.9 despite Linspire's broken committments. We always get new and existing news from them but nothing substancial. Linspire seems to be no trustworthy company from my perspective.
Being opportunistic is not necessarily bad. Linspire's move is a case in point. However, I would be shocked if the South Korean government accepted the offer. You need to be out of your mind to think of a mass migration from one OS to another (Windows to Linux or vice versa). What's more, do u think people would ever volunteer to such a move? Is Linux a complete OS at all? You'll find its components strewn all across cyberspace...and if the populace should contemplate the said shift, all users should think of earning a PhD in Computer Science!
Let's face it: By no stretch of imagination does the mass migration seem likely. By it very nature, an OS that is user friendly and uniformly installed cannot be Open Source.
I had a laugh, makes it worth to me :-)
LOLOLOL....get a life loser.