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Article: Linspire borrows from proprietary world to fill Linux' holes.
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- Client Server News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Some of the Linux purists have gotten their knickers in a twist over the fact that Linspire, the Linux desktop commercializer that used to be called Lindows, is proposing to put out a freebie open source Linux distribution that includes proprietary drivers and software.
The stuff is called Freespire and Linspire attributes some of the market's resistance to Linux on the desktop to its lack of native support for some peripherals, file types and multimedia formats. So it's going to give the skittish a halfway house of legally licensed drivers for Windows Media Player, Apple QuickTime, Java, Flash, Real, MP3, DVD, ATI, nVidia, Adobe Acrobat Reader and third-party ...