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[News] Linspire Gets Abandoned After Microsoft Deal; Novell Latest Brag Unfounded

  • Subject: [News] Linspire Gets Abandoned After Microsoft Deal; Novell Latest Brag Unfounded
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:29:42 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Ubuntu snags top Linspire staffers

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| Linspire, the troubled Linux distribution vendor, has recently lost a top 
| executive and a lead developer to the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution. 
| Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu, has hired former Linspire staffers 
| Randy Linnell and Brian Thomason.   
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4485976647.html

Details Needed On Novell's Allegedly Soaring Linux Sales

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| Slashdot is linking to a story supposedly showing that Novell's Linux 
| business has seen amazing growth in the nine months since they signed a 
| controversial patent deal with Microsoft. "The affect on sales year over 
| year, for Novell's first three quarters of our fiscal year, which ends Oct. 
| 31 -- our Linux business was up 243 percent year over year," said Novell exec 
| Justin Steinman. But so far, at least, this growth doesn't appear to be 
| reflected in Novell's financial results. If my math is right, Novell's 
| revenue for "Linux platform products" totaled $32 million in the first three 
| quarters of 2006, while the total for the first three quarters of 2007 is $53 
| million.         
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20070927/154725.shtml

Novell's spinners.


Related:

Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony resigns

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| Carmony also said his resignation, contrary to some rumors, had nothing to do 
| with any disagreement with Linspire's primary owner Michael Robertson, or 
| with fallout from either of Linspire's recent deals with Microsoft, which 
| covered technology licensing and patent indemnification.   
| 
| Carmony joined Linspire, then known as "Lindows," in June of 2001 to become 
| its president. Later, he became the company's CEO.  
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8364062244.html


Linspire has a new president and CEO

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| According to this posting on the Freespire forum, Linspire has promoted vice 
| president of worldwide sales and marketing, Larry Kettler, as Carmony’s 
| replacement. Like Carmony before him, Kettler has been at Linspire since 
| 2001.   
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/08/linspire_has_a.html


Freespire, Linspire, and Microsoft patents

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| Microsoft denies that this is the case, and argues that, in particular, the 
| GPLv3 has nothing to do with it. However, with its July 5 Covenant to 
| Customers concerning its Linspire deal, Microsoft is trying to put even more 
| distance between any potential patent claims and the GPLv3.   
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7598947159.html


Tomorrow GPLv3 is Released

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| Mr. Carmony asked a question, will Linux split in two factions? The answer 
| is no. Some Linux distros will limp along a while and then die off, 
| because they misunderstood what folks want when they choose GNU/Linux 
| and FOSS. You can see that already. Red Hat, which refused to sign any 
| such deal, is flourishing, for example. It's not about code that "just 
| works". Apple offers that already. It's the freedom. And we've proven 
| willing to put up with some temporary frustration in order to get it. 
| In time, FOSS will win, and all those proprietary codecs and everything 
| else will be made available on pleasanter terms, because market share
| does that.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070628105947503


Linspire deal: What will ESR and Shuttleworth do now?

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| Will Shuttleworth continue to collaborate with a company which has now 
| caved in to a protection racket? Or will he do stick to the principle 
| behind the whole FOSS movement and walk away from the deal? We're watching 
| and waiting, Mark.   
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http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/12899/1090/


Microsoft Strikes GPLv3 Software From Linspire Patent Deal

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| Microsoft says software that's licensed under a new version of a popular open 
| source license isn't covered by the patent protection deal it recently signed 
| with desktop Linux distributor Linspire.  
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http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201001836

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