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Lindows MUST DIE!
Calum:
this distro is not good in the end. For the purposes of this post, please put aside all preconceptions you may have that lindows is even a distro of the popular linux operating system.
this is legal.
i thought we all knew that this was what the lindows people were doing right from the start?
they are selling a system which is closed source and proprietary, so far this is exactly what Microsoft do. However, the Lindows operating system, unlike windows, is INCAPABLE* of running unless you have either got a large wad of GPL software on your machine or some sort of proprietary equivelant+.
This is where lindows are even worse than Microsoft. Both companies claim to sell you a system. While Microsoft sells you a shit system, Lindows sells you half a shit system. Not only that, but Microsoft does nothing to connect itself with linux in any way, while lindows does all it can to smarm its way into any linux related discussion, especially among people who are new to linux and who do not know any better.
Lindows are not breaking the law, and they will not either, however a serious campaign of education needs to occur on a scale never seen before if linux' popularity is to keep growing at the exponential rate it is currently doing so at, or the world will be full of people who think that the Lindows and WineX projects (see another thread on this board) typify the 'ethic' of open source software, and if this is allowed to happen, maybe that will truly become typical, and that would be a sad day indeed.
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* not to my knowledge anyway
+ in reality, it would be GPL software, mainly because this is what is more widely available, and also because this is what is actually distributed with the lindows operating system.
lazygamer:
Sounds like they failed in their plans with Wine. A Linux distro(errr what's the term for Lindows then?) would have one hell of a selling point if it could offer a high compatibility rate with Windows. My guess? They found that it was simply too hard to create a one size fits all WineX config, or an automated configurer that makes settings based on your hardware. So probably, the only way your getting good WineX usage is to know how the hell to set it up for each game. That's no good for newbies, so that would not work out as a selling point.
Calum:
the fact of windows being closed source makes much of it guesswork, and every time somebody gets closer to emulating sindows, (edit - this was a typing error, but i kind of like it!!!) they just change windows. it is not in Microsoft's interests to sit back and let people emulate them.
and re: lindows, you can call it an operating system, rather than a linux distro i think, in the same way as people refer to windows as an operating system.
maybe it should rightly be called GNU/GPL/Lindows, since it is not a system on its own? ;)
[ September 17, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
rtgwbmsr:
How odd:
I had a hard time finding that Lindows was Linux. In fact, the only way I could tell was the EULA, and the fact that they say it is based on Debian.
Master of Reality:
it costs $300 for Lindows... what does that remind you of?
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