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der.hans wrote:
| Am 14. Sep, 2003 schwätzte Rob Wultsch so:
|
| I don't mind a company standing behind a distribution and making money on
| it. Heck, I'm trying to get something like that here in the Valley :).

Neither do I.  However, I do have a problem with a company using false
marketing schemes to try to trick people into beliving they are backed
by someone they are not. [1]  I also, have serve problems with a company
using software built by the community and not playing by the rules. [2]

|>1. First it is debian underneath that many of use know and love.
|>2. Every review claims that it is easly to install.
|
| Irrelevant if it's coming pre-installed :). That they're getting companies
| to pre-install it is great.

The fact they are making inroads in this area is good.  This is why we
should not be hostile towards them.


|>4. It is a suscription based service as much as it is an OS. So most of
|>the programs are availible for free (as in both), but does that mean
|>that they will apt-get nicely? If Lindows can keep installation easy and
|>bug free then is that not worth paying for?
|
|
| As long as they make security updates no-cost and easily installable I'm
| fine with them charging for upgrade of non-security updates. Same
thing goes
| for Red Hat, Mandrake, et al.

The way they are moving is to make Click N Run completely incompatiable
with apt-get (it already is as of 4.0).  It probably will not be long
before they disable the ability to use apt-get as well.  At which point
you have someone trying to lock you into their service (Being they are
the only click n run provider)  This is not good.

- -Derek Neighbors

[1]http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/30/1135213&mode=thread&tid=120
[2]http://gnu-friends.org/story/2002/4/15/152033/483

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