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Hello Thurston - 

TA>>>>> I look forward to your experiences. 

CA>>>> Linspire is an attempt to commercialize free software
CA>>>> (GNU/Linux) why bother with it? 

TA>>> While I am a registered Democrat, and miss the
TA>>> opportunities to vote for Norman Thomas again; I am not
TA>>> adverse to commercial enterprise. I am mindful of the
TA>>> comsiderable adjunction to the art of computering Bill
TA>>> Gates made by buying the DOS from the Seattle club and
TA>>> making it commercially available to many of 

TA>> > us. 

TA>>> In my younger days I enjoyed bothering with PETSCI, CPM,
TA>>> MS/DOS; but in my later days I more enjoy having my
TA>>> computers working for me with Windows O/Ss. I gave SuSE
TA>>> 9.0 a try and hoped Novell might make it more enjoyable
TA>>> to use, but that hasn't materized yet.So maybe Linspere
TA>>> will make linux computering enjoyable also. 

CA>> I see no accurate comparison between Bill Gates and
CA>> Linspire. Gates promoted unproven technology while
CA>> Linspire is an attempt to profit from established freeware. 

TA> I apparently didn't make an adequete comparsion between
TA> Bill Gates (and the $25k he paid the Seattle club for their
TA> code) and Michael Robertson (who has invested a great more
TA> of his own money in the developement of his Lindows system 

I don't happen to know for a fact that Robertson didn't finagle
others into investing in his scheme and I doubt that you would
know where his money comes from either. He may have invested
_zero_ at this point. 

TA> that we non-geeks can use). 

If you _own_ and _use_ a Linspire system then you are
expressing the opinion of a satisfied customer. If you do _not_
then you are restating the opinions expressed in their
advertisedments. 

TA> I haven't seen any *inux people bad mouthing Robertson, as
TA> they do Gates; 

I have read Linux users 'bad mouthing' Robertson. 

TA> so I surmize he has paid for what ever he is useing that
TA> was created by others. 

I seriously doubt that. There is no mechanism whereby he could
pay just the programmers who worked on the Linux kernel nor is
there a mechanism whereby he could repay those who worked on
the rest of Linux (the GNU portion). 

CA>> You can get the same thing for free, why pay this
CA>> charlatan? 

TA> Just a simple old timer who doesn't mind paying his way I
TA> guess. 

You can do as you wish but I won't pretend to think it's a good
idea. 

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