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Re: {advocay] Linspire machine



stan wrote:

 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?

I assume you have at least mailed Linspire about this.
They at least deserve to know how their product is being misused.
Regards,

David.



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