A Look At Lindows Of Days Gone By

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This has been brought up a few time here on the board and I just ran across this video so I thought I would just post it for your enjoyment ......

Lindows may have been one of the first tries of an OS to make Linux and Windows compatible ..... and was done I believe ..... to get more Windows users acquainted with using Linux or just plain switch to Linux .....

I tried it and even had a lifetime membership ...... more on that subject in the video ...... but couldn't get my head rapped around it and sadly went back to M$ Windows ....

The first part of the video deals with M$ suing for name copy infringement .... but they lost and the only way they could finally win was to buy Lindows out ..... which they did .....

If I was using Lindows today ...... with the knowledge of Linux which I now have ...... I would have no trouble using Lindows .....

The problem the YouTuber was having later in the video is the compatibility between ancient software and newer hardware ..... but he does have some success ....

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Michael Robertson won his case against Microsoft and with the $10,000 he was awarded started Linspire. Moving on in time he sold Linspire to Xandros without consulting the Board of Directors of Linspire, so he too was only in it for the money. A real shame as Click'n'Run was just beginning to work smoothly. Kevin Carmony was only interested in promoting his Music site, an attempt to create a Linux i-Tunes if you will which never took off. I still have my community versions of Freespire in my CD collection of .isos.

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Yes that's why big corporations just throw money at developers and then most of the time just scrap the program because they got what they wanted ..... real same but can't say I wouldn't do the same thing if faced with that choice ..... LOL