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Linspire Makes Click and Run Free

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the headed-in-the-right-direction dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After five years of charging an annual fee for their CNR (click and run) service, Linspire has dropped the annual fee, making the CNR service free. This combined with their previous announcement of open sourcing the CNR client, and the Freespire project, is all very big news. This means Freespire users can now have a free distro, using a free CNR service."

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  1. Re:Does anyone actually use this? by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The conclusion that I came to was "consumerist training". People are taught to think like that -- just watch TV if you don't believe me. These people have a strong "feeling" that if you pay for something it has to be better. In short, they're "Americans" with "American values".

    Well, if paying for music and movies instead of downloading them for free is the "right" thing to do, then clearly it is "right" to pay for software instead of downloading it for free too.

  2. Re:Does anyone actually use this? by Jherek+Carnelian · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Prove that you're not a target by shutting the fuck up.

    Make me.

    Now that's baiting, flame or otherwise. And you'll fall for it.

    You've no idea of the ennui that motivates me. Clearly you are a fanboi, else you would not have spent the effort to look at my posting history. Would you care to deny that you've been baited into entertaining me?