Talk:Linspire

message: Why does Freespire redirect to Linspire?  Will this be changed once Freespire is released in August?
: I think Freespire should be forked into it's own article, since it's independent of mainstream Linspire. Rhys42 14:31, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done! see Freespire . zvonsully 14:26, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: I propose to restructure and rewrite the article to make it more cronological. It seems that Linspire is undergoing interesting developments: early lawsuits, criticism about security, announcing Freespire and open-sourcing CNR. At the moment, some of these events are referred to not once, but several times in the article. We may find that some headers become redundant and that the article can be shorter and more informative as a result. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 18:07, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Restructure/rewrite

message: This is something I struggle with. The license field currently says "Various", which means no more than "more than one", but excludes neither pure FOSS nor pure proprietary. If it is a mixture of those two categories, please explicitly say so (as in "Free and proprietary")!
Source model - I've asked for clarification on the template talk page of what this is meant to be, and have had no good answer yet. I'm not sure how useful the concept is for Linux distributions, all of which consist of a myriad packages, not all of which have GPL-compatible licenses. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 13:47, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it's necessary to nail the exact mixture, so long as it's noted that Linspire uses both models. Chris Cunningham 16:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source model and license 

message: This article is really beginning to get pretty shiny. Could do with being expanded in the history section, and some more concrete data needs to go into the technical stuff, but it doesn't read like an advert any more and it contains a lot of good information. Chris Cunningham 16:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree!  Tcrow777  talk  01:50, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, it is already a Good article.  Tcrow777  talk  01:53, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good article 

message: "As part of the licensing settlement, Microsoft paid an estimated $24 million cash (for a case which Microsoft itself brought), and Lindows, Inc. transferred the Lindows trademark to Microsoft and changed its name to Linspire, Inc."
I sort of doubt that Microsoft Corporation representatives actually issued payment in the form of paper "cash". Also, it was stated previosly in the section that Microsoft had filed the suit, so is the "(for a case which Microsoft itself brought)" part really necessary? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.224.39.161 (talk) 06:03, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cash 

message: I've removed this from the "open source support" section:
:Linspire is also the leading maintainer of the Lsongs (an iTunes equivalent) and Lphoto projects.
These are two Linspire business ventures, not open source support initiatives.  I've moved that text here instead of deleting it because maybe it should go elsewhere in the article. Gronky 03:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They are both free software projects initiated and supported by Linspire, so I don't really see why they shouldn't be mentioned on that basis. Whether they are important enough to bother with, I don't know. NicM 09:31, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure, but as I see it, the community didn't ask for these things and I haven't heard praise for them, or even of people using them.  They seem to be a tool for some Linspire revenue stream, not a community contribution.  Presenting them as a contribution without explaining that no one wants the contribution would be misleading. Gronky 12:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There are a billion things on freshmeat that few people asked for and nobody wants, the criteria for free software is the license, not popularity. They are still a contribution, although I'm quite happy to leave them out altogether, they are relatively minor pieces of software and there is already a long list of other projects Linspire have contributed something to. NicM 12:50, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lsongs and Lphotos

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