{advocay] Linspire machine

[stan <stanb@panix.com>]

I bought a machine with Linspire preloaded on it today. Nice machien,
and cheaper than I could build it. A bit short on RAM, and the CD is a
reader only (no CD writer or DVD). But great value for the $299.

Reading through the manual that comes with it, I find no information as
to how to use the preloaded software, but quite a bit of nformation
relative to wiping it and installing various flabors of M$ OS'es.

Here's my concern. It appears that the promary intent of this is not to
encourage the new users that might buy this amchine to learn to use
Linux, but instead a way to sell them a machine W/O the M% tax, and
encourage them to load a pirated copy of a M$ OS on it.

This really seems like a bad light to cast the Linux comunity in, IMHO.

What are otheres prespective on this?

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