On Monday 07 January 2002 21:25, Daniel Feiglin wrote: > After looking over the site, my immediate thoughts were, "Vapourware" and > "scam". But if so, why is Microsoft sueing them? Possible answer: Provoke > Microsoft into a legal situation to draw atention. If Gates thinks Lindows > is important enough to sue, people will think that Lindows must have > something, so off they go and pay their $99 and/or buy stock. A nice bit of > reverse FUD. (And, in the present unfriendly attitude to Microsoft in the > Courts, Lindows might even win something ... without even having gone to > market with a product. This is possibly a neat little win-win "shtick".)
Donno about theories, But back then when Michael Robertson was the CEO of MP3.com BEFORE it came very well known (thanks to their subscription service where you can access your music everywhere with their pretty briliant ripper) I had a phone phone conversations with him... My impression is that this is a serious businessman and so far no one has been cheated by them - I bought several CD's from MP3.COM - all of them arrived with the music (some trance music) and the CD's included the same files as MP3 files which I think is nice... Now - for you and other who wants some theories... Back in september - the plan of Lindows was to sell "Lindows Office" which was a re-branded version of Hancom Office (this is not a rumor - I have tested those RPMS myself last week ago thanks to a contact person) + some other re-branded applications - since then, Lindows ditched it entirely. Now - my "educated" guess that there was a group of people NOT related to Lindows that hacked Wine and either wanted to sell it fast or make money fast - so they approached Lindows and sold it to them for unknown amount of money - my guess is as good as anyone on this list... Someone (another source) approached me with another screenshot that I cannot publish - showing Word and explorer running and a "ps aux" list of processes inside konsole - only noteable thing I saw there was running wine & wineserver (although few of them together)... I'm sure that as much as many people (myself included) who wait for this version of Lindows (and god only knows why they're not selling the wine version alone without a full distribution), the people at MS are also waiting to see if and how many patents they violated - or as some wine developer told me "Hetz, it's not that hard to implement the missing stuff - it's the patents that MS issued which you need to workaround each of them - and they are very generic and a lot"... We'll have to wait & see (if I'm not mistaken - 2 weeks until the preview 0.90 release). Cheers, sleepy Hetz ;) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
