MS vs. Lindows

[redking]

It seems that Lindows has partialy won the case regarding the windows name, because Lindows has changed its name into Linspire.

But hold a minute. there could be another case coming against Lindows/Linspire.

It seems that Lindows/Linspire doesnot allow third party software to be installed on there system. Because you need to buy/hire (monthly payment for a year) the tools to make use of the third party source code/binary software packages.

Unless it is a standalone software in zipformat, which has its own library files included.

But still this is not what is allowed according to competitive/anti-thrust laws in the US, EU and the rest of the world.

MS could bring this forward under the attention of the DoJ in the USA

There is a way to by-pass this obstruction in LIndowsOS with autopackage. rhis is a tool to make relocatable software packages regardless the OS (distro).

If and only if MS would hire people to work on this autopackage tool or make a similar tool, then this could destroy a large part of the income of Lindows/Linspire.

Even linux-users would support this, since neither they like this attitude of Lindows/Linspire.

[FthrJACK]

Actually, as Lindows is a modified version of Debian, you can use apt get.

And install debian packages on it, no need to use Lindows click n run [with your cash]

Almost all of the programs on click n run (or ones very similar) can be downloaded and used FREE using apt.