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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: sime on 21 April 2005, 12:13

Title: Linspire Slams Microsoft 'Bully'
Post by: sime on 21 April 2005, 12:13

Go Mike Go...!


http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/42403.html

Later

Sime

Title: Re: Linspire Slams Microsoft 'Bully'
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 21 April 2005, 17:00

Linspire have learned a lot of their business practices form Microsoft, like locking their customers into a propriety system and fud marketing tactics for example. Lnspire is crap and it's bad for Linux - I wish they'd go oput of business.

 :fu: Linspire!

 :fu: Microsoft!

Title: Re: Linspire Slams Microsoft 'Bully'
Post by: Lord C on 21 April 2005, 17:21

I read this the other day.
Made me tickle.

Linspire have their good and bad points.
Unfortunetly the latter outnumber the former.

Linspire has a very Windows-clone feel to it, which could be good in the transition from Windows-to-Linux.
But they had to spoil it with a proprietary, subscription based, packaging system :(

If someone made their own alternative to Click&Buy, and hacked Linspire to use this instead, im sure it would be a good first-distro for newbies.
But that's more trouble than it's worth.

Title: Re: Linspire Slams Microsoft 'Bully'
Post by: Refalm on 21 April 2005, 23:22

Finally, the company strikes back at Microsoft's ridiculous Lindows looks too much like Windows lawsuit.

Title: Re: Linspire Slams Microsoft 'Bully'
Post by: KernelPanic on 21 April 2005, 23:48

Quote from: Lord C

If someone made their own alternative to Click&Buy, and hacked Linspire to use this instead, im sure it would be a good first-distro for newbies.
But that's more trouble than it's worth.

It's called apt-get and it's been around since ~300BC.

Title: Re: Linspire Slams Microsoft 'Bully'
Post by: Annorax on 22 April 2005, 01:56

Is there any truth to the "they got us thrown out of a hotel" whining?

Title: Re: Linspire Slams Microsoft 'Bully'
Post by: Jenda on 22 April 2005, 20:59

Well, from my outside point of view, it seems that the hotel kicked them out itself, whether or not it was because of fear of MS, and whether or not MS hinted them on the fact that they do not like the Linspire people.

Title: Re: Linspire Slams Microsoft 'Bully'
Post by: Calum on 22 April 2005, 21:08

who cares which of these companies threw the most toys out of the pram? certainly not me :)

Title: Re: Linspire Slams Microsoft 'Bully'
Post by: Lord C on 22 April 2005, 21:53

Quote from: KernelPanic

It's called apt-get and it's been around since ~300BC.

I'm talking about newbies. windows lusers.
People who cry at the sight of a command line.

Synaptic is ok tbh. :)

Title: Re: Linspire Slams Microsoft 'Bully'
Post by: Calum on 22 April 2005, 23:11

sure is.

and xandros has a crap dumbed down GUI for apt that gets included by default with their linux. visit xandros.com for the OS that you described above.