"Imhotep" <Imhotep@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:te6dnQP5SpW-UYHeRVn-3w@adelphia.com...
> "Linspire is giving away its $50 Linspire through Sept. 6, the San
> Diego-based company said Thursday after an independent developer
> changed
> the name of his "Freespire" project."
>
> Linsire Web Site: http://linspire.com/
>
> Story:
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20050902/tc_cmp/170102639
>
> Imhotep


From http://freespire.jasp.com/:

"freespire" was the term I gave to a private project I had been working
on. The project was comprised of various open source components, taken
from the freely available source repository for the Linspire operating
system. Somehow my project got submitted to distrowatch.com as a
bona-fide Linux distribution. I can only assume whoever did this had
good intentions, unfortunately it was done without my consent.
Subsequent widespread distribution of this project has led to much
misunderstanding, based largely on the name. So to make it clear:
This project is not a free version of the Linspire operating system and
is not made by Linspire Inc."

That last part was in big font and red to make sure that the reader
understood what was *his* project and that it was not Linspire. Then he
adds:

"To help alleviate any confusion, I contacted Linspire and they made an
extremely generous offer to us all. They want everyone who has been
following my project to experience "the real" Linspire, FOR FREE!!! For
a limited time, they are making available a coupon code called
"FREESPIRE" that will give you a free digital copy of Linspire! Please
visit http://linspire.com/freespire for details."

Their servers have been so busy that it is likely that this "accidental
throttling" will limit how many users actually get a free copy. Good
luck at the Linspire lottery.

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