Goodbye my friends, until we meet again!

PGTips91 · 18 Hours Ago

Goodbye my friends, until we meet again!

Au revoir mes amis, jusqu'à ce que nous nous réunissions encore !

Auf Wiedersehen meine Freunde, bis wir uns wieder treffen!

Αντίο οι φίλοι μου, έως ότου συναντιόμαστε πάλι!

Arrivederci i miei amici, fino a che non ci incontriamo ancora!

私達が再度会うまで、さようなら私の友人!

¡Adiós mis amigos, hasta que nos encontremos otra vez!

再见我的朋友，直到我们再见面!

Vaarwel mijn vrienden, tot wij opnieuw samenkomen!

Just in case this forum disappears, I take this opportunity to wish all my friends here adieu.

Thanks for the memories!

Paul

Animal · 8 Hours Ago

Ditto

Cloudy Wizzard · 8 Hours Ago

Well if you didn't read the news on Xandros their website :

Quote:

Xandros and Linspire are the only Linux vendors with digital distribution warehouses that let users download and install both free and commercial applications with a single mouse click. Together, the companies will offer the best digital software distribution warehouse for a variety of Linux platforms, including Freespire, which will continue to be maintained as an open source project.

So this doesn't state what they will do with Xandros or Linspire (I guess merge them into Xanspire

) but from what I understand Freespire is ALIVE and kicking (hoping it will remain that way).

and don't forget to credit the source read the whole press-release there.

Bro.Tiag · 7 Hours Ago

Slán agat. Go raibh maith agat.

Slán

Beardie Man · 7 Hours Ago

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Originally Posted by Cloudy Wizzard

Well if you didn't read the news on Xandros their website :

So this doesn't state what they will do with Xandros or Linspire (I guess merge them into Xanspire

) but from what I understand Freespire is ALIVE and kicking (hoping it will remain that way).

and don't forget to credit the source read the whole press-release there.

I think Lindros would be better

DanielEc · 5 Hours Ago

anybody has any idea what's going to happen to the lifetime insiders?

PGTips91 · 4 Hours Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cloudy Wizzard

Well if you didn't read the news on Xandros their website :

http://www.xandros.com/news/press_re..._linspire.html

So this doesn't state what they will do with Xandros or Linspire (I guess merge them into Xanspire

) but from what I understand Freespire is ALIVE and kicking (hoping it will remain that way).

and don't forget to credit the source read the whole press-release there.

Their source?

Quote:

Xandros Contact:

Xenia von Wedel
Terpin Communications Group
1-415-595-2030
xandros@terpin.com
Xandros sales and other inquiries: 1-613-842-3494

Just very good spin.

Bottom line, I did not sign up as a Lifetime Insider to this.

My spin on it? 'Sold down the river.'

Did you notice that part of what was acquired by Xandros is the Freespire 'open source' distribution. How open is it really?

Beardie Man · 4 Hours Ago

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Originally Posted by PGTips91

Their source?

Just very good spin.

Bottom line, I did not sign up as a Lifetime Insider to this.

My spin on it? 'Sold down the river.'

Did you notice that part of what was acquired by Xandros is the Freespire 'open source' distribution. How open is it really?

Freespire is 100% open except for the codecs and proprietary drivers.

Bro.Tiag · 3 Hours Ago

Sorry, I'm going to have to side with dean on this one.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beardie Man

Freespire is 100% open except for the codecs and proprietary drivers.

That's like saying you are a little bit knocked up.

Cheers

Beardie Man · 3 Hours Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bro.Tiag

Sorry, I'm going to have to side with dean on this one.
That's like saying you are a little bit knocked up.

Cheers

What did Dean say?

richard.a · 3 Hours Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by PGTips91

Just very good spin.

Bottom line, I did not sign up as a Lifetime Insider to this.

My spin on it? 'Sold down the river.'

My thoughts too.

It's been a very long time dying. I very much hope that the guys who last I heard were still employed will get jobs with the new owners; often nasty stuff happens behind the closed doors. Kevin mentioned some of that on his blog when he went.

Particularly I would like to single out Ken (Doc Jones) who has had a very difficult job here, keeping the ravening wolves among the insiders at bay.

Several weeks ago I had to close the undernet.org #Linspire chatroom for several technical reasons, but there had been no joins and parts for a very very long time, apart from Viper and Ken (Doc Jones) and from time to time JDoyle. I would like to thank those guys for using their bandwidth to help create an IRC meeting place on one of the largest networks.

The future?

Well, I'm reminded that when Joseph Cheek sold the name of Lycoris to Mandrake/Mandriva, it disappeared, and so did the user community, lock, stock, and barrel, after a short period of time. And he was the only employee left. Wonder what happened to him. Lycoris was a lovely distribution, but slower than Lindows. Probably better suited to Windows migrants (with its many customisations of the file manager) than all the others.

Linspire/Freespire being transferred for financial gain to Xandros, another early appearer on the scene, is unlikely to be any different, and the economic climate now is far less booming.

There is an old hymn which I heard performed on a CD featuring the Brisbane Salvation Army band some years ago, "God be with you till we meet again". Beautiful words, but seldom used except at a funeral or a mortal departure of a well loved person to distant shores. I bid you all the sentiments therein. Take care all. I mean it most sincerely.

Richard in Adelaide
(the city of churches)
Currently adapting PuppyLinux to old boxen that recent *nix won't run on
http://micro-hard.homelinux.net/PuppyLinux

Bro.Tiag · 3 Hours Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by Beardie Man

What did Dean say?

Specificity on the above post, nothing, but in general, I'm going to side with his GNU/FSF/FOSS view point (though I'm no militant, nor have any issue with *spire & proprietary stuff) that the use of proprietary stuff means that it's not "Open".

Cheers

NoKernel · 56 Minutes Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by DanielEc

anybody has any idea what's going to happen to the lifetime insiders?

I think that it is a bit early to know that... We will surely get an answer or see for ourselves what happen to our lifetime.

revhouse1 · 53 Minutes Ago

Quote:

Originally Posted by NoKernel

I think that it is a bit early to know that... We will surely get an answer or see for ourselves what happen to our lifetime.

Well, I've been told the worry can shorten your life time, so as long as you're not getting overly worked up about it I'm sure your lifetime will be as long as its suppose to be

tom

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PGTips91 Journeyman Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Age: 67 Posts: 486 Rep Power: 6	Goodbye my friends, until we meet again! Goodbye my friends, until we meet again! Au revoir mes amis, jusqu'à ce que nous nous réunissions encore ! Auf Wiedersehen meine Freunde, bis wir uns wieder treffen! Αντίο οι φίλοι μου, έως ότου συναντιόμαστε πάλι! Arrivederci i miei amici, fino a che non ci incontriamo ancora! 私達が再度会うまで、さようなら私の友人! ¡Adiós mis amigos, hasta que nos encontremos otra vez! 再见我的朋友，直到我们再见面! Vaarwel mijn vrienden, tot wij opnieuw samenkomen! Just in case this forum disappears, I take this opportunity to wish all my friends here adieu. Thanks for the memories! Paul __________________ Paul G. Taylor, Auckland, NZ LinuxUser_436483 - currently using Klikit-Linux 0.1-8 Lindows Life-time Insider, former life-time member of CNR Warehouse. Wiki : Reinstalling Linspire Applications

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