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Posted in GNU/Linux, Linspire, Microsoft at 4:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
After selling us some of Microsoft’s anti-Linux FUD and getting totally betrayed by Microsoft, Kevin Caromy, CEO of Linspire, decided to leave the company. Is Eric Raymond next?
=> ↺ selling us some of Microsoft’s anti-Linux FUD | ↺ getting totally betrayed by Microsoft | ↺ decided to leave the company
Carmony also said his resignation, contrary to some rumors, had nothing to do with any disagreement with Linspire’s primary owner Michael Robertson, or with fallout from either of Linspire’s recent deals with Microsoft, which covered technology licensing and patent indemnification.
This sounds unlikely, but let us give him the benefit of the doubt.
Is it bad news for Linux as a whole? Au contraire, one mighty argue. To repeat what Groklaw stated about a month ago:
Mr. Carmony [of Linspire] asked a question, will Linux split in two factions? The answer is no. Some Linux distros will limp along a while and then die off, because they misunderstood what folks want when they choose GNU/Linux and FOSS. You can see that already. Red Hat, which refused to sign any such deal, is flourishing, for example. It’s not about code that “just works”. Apple offers that already. It’s the freedom. And we’ve proven willing to put up with some temporary frustration in order to get it. In time, FOSS will win, and all those proprietary codecs and everything else will be made available on pleasanter terms, because market share does that.
We feel sorry for Linux talent that grew inside Linspire and will probably face unpleasant consequences for months (maybe even years) to come. On several occasions we tried to warn Kevin, but he went for the money anyway.
=> ↺ we tried to warn Kevin | ↺ went for the money
When Linspire initially announced its deal with Microsoft, Christian Einfeldt, founder of Digital Tipping Point, let everyone know that Michael Robertson, founder of Linspire, probably would not have endorsed the deal. Christian once interviewed this man, whom I personally respect. Regardless of the direction Robertson and Linspire take, the distribution is stuck because of licensing issues.
=> ↺ because of licensing issues
Let this show the world why deals with Microsoft are always a bad idea.
No. More. Deals.
Please.
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