Microsoft signs up Linspire (Re: Microsoft signs up Xandros)

[debiani386 at gmail.com]

On Fri June 15 2007 6:28 am, Conrad Knauer wrote:
> On 6/14/07, Cybe R. Wizard <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > So ok, what does this mean for CNR in Ubuntu?
> > > http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7103672739.html
> > > http://www.cnr.com/
> >
> > Do you mean the CNR that will be ready in the second quarter, 2007?
> > Isn't it already past that date?
>
> <grin> Not quite; they still have two weeks ;)
>
> > Does anybody really care?
>
> That's the big question for Linspire; they're not really all that
> popular to begin with (even if you lump their market share with
> Freespire's) and angering the community with MS patent deals isn't
> going to help.  I was actually interested in seeing what their
> cross-distro CNR system was going to be like, but in the wake of this,
> I think I'll skip it.
>
> Ah well...  M$ is making choosing a distro soooo easy these days ;)
>
> CK

M$ was what drove me to linux, a friend of mine was the person responsible for 
stearing me towards ubuntu :).



good thing i listened to him
--cj