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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. The Reason Why It can be Free by neonprimetime · · Score: 5, Insightful

    according to CEO Kevin Carmony, Linspire is doing well enough from selling its higher-end products and services that it can afford to offer its basic CNR service free of charge

    Good for him, and good for us! I guess that's what happens when you become innovative and create multiple products / services!

  2. Well what do you know by Provocateur · · Score: 5, Funny

    /. actually showed what the acronym stands for in the summary. The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization is now complete. Dogs and Cats can now live together.

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  3. Re:One question by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    How are they going to make money?

    Duh, the same way everyone else does:
    2) ???

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  4. Re:One question by Duds · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And to be quite frank, as a windows only computer user, Freespire is EASILY the most impressive Linux I've ever seen. Everything I wanted to work did and it highly likely to go on my next laptop.

    CNR free might have clinched that.

  5. Re:One question by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 5, Funny
    How are they going to make money?
    Volume!