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Linspire announces community-driven Freespire
by Jordan Running Apr 25th 2006 at 10:00AM
Linspire,
the Linux distribution criticized by some for being full of proprietary drivers and software, is trying to go the way of
Fedora with a new "community-driven"
distribution called Freespire. Two version of Freespire will be released,
one with proprietary software and one without. The really-free version won't, for example, come with DVD playback,
which users will instead have the option to purchase. Groklaw calls it "nauseating," saying,
"this is what happens when proprietary folks who are not from the community show up prospecting for gold. They
can't change their thinking, which is that they want to make money by hook or by crook." Freespire will be
released in August, likely at San Francisco's LinuxWorld West.[Via Slashdot]
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