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Good review of Lindows withdrawn!!!! Please read.
Mistshadow:
Ok, trying again:
TheQuirk:
Eh. Are you sure it doesn't mean it'll stop working only if you download software during the trial period?
Mistshadow:
It says explicitly that the software you downloaded during your free trial will be disabled if you don't buy a membership. How would the programs themselves know if you paid for a membership or not?
mobrien_12:
quote:Originally posted by Mistshadow:
It says explicitly that the software you downloaded during your free trial will be disabled if you don't buy a membership. How would the programs themselves know if you paid for a membership or not?
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Darned good question, Mistshadow. We might actually want to ask the Lindows people to clarify this.
Alot of the Click'N'Run stuff is GPL, so they CAN sell it to you, but, from what I understand, they CANNOT add restrictions on use of GPL programs. You cannot sell a GPL program, then ask for a perpetual membership in click'n'run.
Hell, I don't think they can't even legally disable GPL programs from the 15 day free trial.
You let someone download a GPL program, you have distributed it... you cannot add restrictions on the distributed copy after the fact.
preacher:
I believe that all click and run is, is a fancy graphical frontend to Apt for debian. So why not just download Lindows for free, then use apt to download new software rather than paying?
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