Linspire Announces Freespire Distribution

LinuxScribe writes "Is the world ready for another community Linux distro a là Fedora and openSUSE? We're about to find out, as Linspire used the Desktop Linux Summit to announce a community-driven version of Linspire, to be called Freespire. But here's the twist, Freespire will come in two flavors: a completely open source version and a version that includes all of the fully-licensed proprietary apps, drivers, and codecs in Linspire."

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I wonder what's up

[Illbay]

Fedora was established as the bleeding-edge benchmark for development of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Linspire, in contrast, is rather staid and unadventurous. One questions whether a "bleeding edge" is even required for that distro.

So what is the purpose of "Freespire"?

Re:I wonder what's up

[larry bagina]

"embracing the community" is a good way to get smelly.

Re:now more than 500 distros

[abscissa]

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Evolution

[the darn]

Lindows -> Linspire -> Freespire
So, if they hadn't been forced to change, would this new distro be called Freedows? The mascot could have been the Freedow Bandido!

Freespire = give up your freedom for a driver

[Anonymous Coward]

Freespire: A Linux Distro For When You Couldn't Care Less About Freedom (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060424 164142296)

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Stefano Spinucci

Re:Mod Company -1: Troll

[linvir]

I don't get it. Why do people always piss on Linspire for selling Free Software, when so many others had already been doing it for so long? Is it because of a perceived lack of contribution back into Open Source on the part of Linspire? From a slightly biased Wikipedia article:

Linspire has contributed millions of dollars in direct funds and contributed code to several open source projects. For a company of Linspire's size, their contributions have been quite admirable. With very few exceptions, all code that is developed by Linspire is contributed back to the open source community. Linspire is also the lead maintainer for important projects such as Nvu, Lsongs, Lphoto, and an important contributor to other projects such as Mozilla Firefox, Gaim, Reiser FS, and many others.

Re:Mod Company -1: Troll

[chris_eineke]

try to find a buck out of distributing open source software

Yeah, like Redhat, SuSE, Mandriva, etc.

Tell me: When has selling Free / Open Source Software become a sin against humanity?