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Old 05-09-2006, 11:03 AM   #1
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LXer: Kevin Carmony: Walking The Line of a Divided Community


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* LXer Feature: 9-May-06Kevin Carmony has taken the heat from some in the FOSS community for offering non-free software in Linspire, and in particular, for attempting to lure the FOSS community into contributing to Linspire via Freespire. Don Parris spoke with Linspire's Kevin Carmony to learn more about his position. Are the community's accusations fair? What other options are there?

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Old 05-09-2006, 01:19 PM   #2
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Good article. With legal problems looming over DRM, the RIAA, MPAA, BSA, and hardware manufacturers with proprietary codecs and drivers, etc. it is only reasonable to understand that people must make a choice--use some licensed software, go without running applications (like movie DVDs) that require them, or use software that violates certain laws. I believe that Linspire is providing a reasonable choice for people wishing to follow the first alternative. After all, Linspire is one of the few distributions these days that legally runs most multimedia applications out of the box.
 
  


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