Original: On August 8, 2008, Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros, announced that Linspire would be discontinued in favor of Xandros; Freespire would change its base code from Ubuntu to Debian; and the Linspire brand would cease to exist.
Simplified: This follows the model of community-oriented releases by Red Hat and Novell in the form of Fedora and openSUSE.