Linspire CEO Mr.Kevin Carmony resigns

Its been ups and downs for Linspire for the past one year and now the worse has come out. Linspire CEO – Kevin Carmony has resigned from Linspire on July 31st, 2007. More news here

What does Linspire do ?

Here is a diagram by me which depicts what Linspire does 🙂

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Enabling Root Account in Linspire 6.0

By default the root account is disabled in Linspire. To enable root account,

Linspire 6.0 released !

After a long wait Kevin informed us the Release in the forums :),

Linspire does remember their old CNR Gold Customers :)

As to my previous post, where Linspire announced that the current CNR Gold Members would not be able to upgrade to Linspire 6, there was a big confusion going on in their forums and also it looked like Linspire betrayed their exisinting CNR Gold customers. Today Kevin, CEO of Linspire, announced in the forums that,

Linspire – Money Minded ??

Recently Kevin Carmony, CEO of Linspire Corporation announced in the forums that,

“Updates” are free, but “Upgrades” are not. Meaning, if you buy Linspire 5.0, CNR Gold members can get an “update” to 5.1 at no charge. “Upgrades” between versions, however, are not included. This is because we need to pay our licensing fees each time and can’t afford to give these away.
Those who purchased Linspire 5.x within 30 days will, however, get a free upgrade to 6.0.

Linspire’s next move

Kevin Carmony, Chief Executive at Linspire said,

“Interoperability with Microsoft Office documents is critical, and Linspire is pleased to join this ongoing effort with Novell and Microsoft to bring document interoperability to our mutual customer base.”

Latest Linspire Letter

Is Linux Splitting into Two Factions?

Earlier, I wrote an entry on the Linspire and Microsoft deal which was based on previous Linspire Letter (LL).

There are many things said, announced by Linspire creating much hype, but there is nothing seen in action yet and how would one believe so much in Linspire when there is not even a Beta Release of Freespire yet ! Remember, Freespire is the test bed for Linspire. Now the Freespire 2.0 stable release would be test bed for the Linspire 6.0 release. Till today, there is nothing been productive from Linspire.