Alfonso_Chavez at cargill.com wrote:
> They settled for $25 million. I think.
> 
> Linspire might be making Linux pretty and easier to configure, 
> but they're also doing other (BAD) things, like having the
> default user be the 'root' user.
> 
> Alfonso

Yep!  My impression when I tried it about a year ago was that they had 
some good ideas re: making a desktop for a non-technical user but that 
they had negated a lot of Linux advantages where not necessary.

FWIW I have been playing with Xandros the last few months and I think 
they have done a better job of 'improving' the joe-user useability 
without the drawbacks that Linspire imposed.  (definitely not the best 
distro for a developer, etc)

What both of them have that I think may be the biggest thing is the ease 
of software installation.  While not terribly difficult for some folks 
the whole rpm/deb (or god forbid compiling it yourself) is just not 
comfortable to the majority of users.


Pat

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