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Linspire will replace Windows with crippled Linux - cheap

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If Microsoft makes good on its self-destructive threat to pull Windows from the South Korean market rather than accede to local damands to un-bundle its proprietary media and IM apps, there's a safe harbour waiting in the form of blanket, country-wide licenses for the OS formerly known as Lindows. Noting that South Korea blows $100m per year on Microsoft bugware, Linspire honcho Kevin Carmony has made a formal offer to South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun to license every computer in the realm for the bargain price of $5m.

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Comments (5)

jimf ·
Well, when all else is said, this is a brilliant business move :)
tuxchick ·
gosh dangit, who gives a rip about bundled software? Browsers, media players, so what? Those are easily replaceable. The bundled software is so not the point, and I wonder if BillG deserves credit for manuevering attention in that direction. That whole DOJ trial was just a big pointless dog-and-pony-show, where all the big tech companies got to puff and strut and make a lot of empty noise. It's the unholy grip that Microshaft has on the short hairs of hardware vendors that hoses customers. That's where customer choice has been throttled.
jimf ·
True Tuxchick, but if Korea were to take the Linspire offer, they would be free of MS in a heartbeat, and a Debian based Distro would have taken over a serious section of the marketplace. No matter what Ii think of Linspire, that senario would be awesome :)
tuxchick ·
Oh, I have no problem with Linspire sweeping Korea like a clean fresh tidal wave. That would be luvverly.
tadelste ·
Yuk. I think they have Asian Linux already.

Michael or whoever made the offer and go lots of PR. See we're writing about it on LXer.

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