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I guess the plan is working.
The Linux solidarity is breaking up. GPL v3 is highly controversial and many linux distros will probably not adopt it....unless some of the big players do that they depend on and they are forced into it by their own "brethern".

Things aren't looking all that great for linux....or are they?

I've always felt for Linux to be successful on the desktop there needs to be just ONE distro (at least to start with) that is backed to be the break out distro. The community needed to allow for that, for their own good. These Microsoft deals would probably have never been necessary if 5 years ago or so the Linux community at large came together and said, let's take the most popular distro going and feed that one, advertise it, commercialize it, and get a market share started. This 200 distro thing is just not working well. Is that too late now? Mabye not. If Ubuntu gets special attention while Dell is selling it, who knows.

I've seen no sales numbers yet....i realize Dell has not had a a full period pass since it's release to have reporting, but I didn't know if there was some barometer or data released from Dell on how it's going?
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Microsoft signs technology pact with Linspire  Loverock Davidson | 06/13/07
I'm sticking with Ubuntu...  galileon | 06/14/07
What color are the drapes  LinuxHippie | 06/14/07
actually i meant Seth from ancient Egypt,  galileon | 06/14/07
My Bad  LinuxHippie | 06/14/07
I guess the plan is working.  xuniL_z | 06/14/07
First of all.......  Tim Patterson | 06/14/07
see what I mean?  xuniL_z | 06/14/07
Hehe, have you actually tried LFS?  NonZealot | 06/14/07
i did a few years ago,  galileon | 06/14/07
Gentoo  Michael Kelly | 06/14/07
I second that  NonZealot | 06/14/07
cheers,  galileon | 06/14/07
Yawn..  magcomment | 06/14/07
Just wannabes  gotitright | 06/14/07
Microsoft  dogStar5000 | 06/14/07
Is this your first visit to C/ZDnet?!?  KTLA | 06/14/07
Dodgy deals  whisperycat | 06/14/07
haha  galileon | 06/14/07
The only flaw in your scenerio  GuidingLight | 06/14/07
Continuation has been cancelled due to lack of interest  xuniL_z | 06/14/07
If no word leaked out  Freebird54 | 06/15/07
"dodgy"?  KTLA | 06/14/07
Which country would that be?  Freebird54 | 06/15/07
Good point  KTLA | 06/15/07
Unfortunately  Freebird54 | 06/16/07
Are they still around?  Yagotta B. Kidding | 06/14/07
Yup...  Tim Patterson | 06/14/07
Denial?  George Mitchell | 06/14/07
Linspire, Carmony, and ESR...  Tim Patterson | 06/14/07
about your ESR comment...  Arm A. Geddon | 06/14/07
At least this one makes sense  Michael Kelly | 06/14/07
Linspire is becoming more irrelevant  Linux Geek | 06/14/07
Huge surprise! (not) ...  George Mitchell | 06/14/07
Take the money and run  gotitright | 06/14/07
Virtual absence ...  George Mitchell | 06/14/07
Microsoft's copyrights  ehwood | 06/14/07
Er, its patents not copyrights ...  George Mitchell | 06/14/07
You're not understanding this  KTLA | 06/14/07
Possible - even probable  Freebird54 | 06/15/07
Not necessarily  KTLA | 06/15/07
I just want to know how much Microsoft paid Linspire...  mrlinux | 06/14/07
Bargain basement prices!  George Mitchell | 06/14/07
adding OS functions, not apps., that are not open source is illegal. FSF  wessonjoe | 06/14/07
All patents must die [nt]  Omch'Ar | 06/14/07
Now that's the next nail in the last coffin  Boot_Agnostic | 06/16/07
Modus operandi  p.vinnie@... | 06/24/07
Linspire...... RIP!  Ole Man | 06/26/07

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