In short, the slashdot headline was false – as well as posted prior to Linspire being notified, but Linspire was using the graphics without first requesting permission. I still hold authorship rights to the graphics. But just for the record, this is not an issue involving the newly posted creative commons license. I’m currently in talks with them to get this issue resolved. The truth is that Linspire was using my graphics without first obtaining permission. The reason for that was to make things clear for future problems, not Linspire. I posted the CC license in response to learning that Linspire was using my graphics without permission. IMPORTANT: Recent controversy involving Lindows/Linspire Recently Slashdot posted an article that accuses Lindows of violating creative commons license, this is an incorrect statement. But there was never a isssue with the creative commons license. Yes, they were using his art with out permission and that is now being straightened out. The truth is that linspire was using my graphics without first obtaining permission. The reason for that was to make things clear for future problems, not linspire. “IMPORTANT: Recent controversy involving Lindows/Linspire Recently Slashdot posted an article that accuses Lindows of violating creative commons license, this is not true. I suggest that you read directly from the site of the person who is supposedly the “wronged” party. So, like I said, personally I have mixed feelings about Linspire, I would not use it, but I would have no hesitation to recommend it to my ms windows loving friends I did not have the same experience with Mplayer, mine worked out of the box and even played a divx5 movie with ac3 sound, without asking for codecs etc Linspire is very good out of the box, and once you remove cnr from start up, and the menus, it is a very good system for bringing people away from windows. It just makes it appear that either Lindows is a greedy company who are only after your cash, or that Linspire is a incomplete system that will only work properly if you go to cnr and fill up the menus with all the missing software. However, I do not like the fact that cnr is running from boot, has a destop icon, has a kicker icon and has a submenu under every menu. I also accept that although most of cnr packages are free elsewhere, if you are going to use it, you will of course be paying for the work that has gone into the testing etc. I like the IDEA of click and run, a repository of software that has been tested with the distro, that will install at the click of a button. He will also want an easy way to install new software. I understand that Linspire is targetted at Joe Public who just wants to switch on pc and use it to do whatever. I have mixed feelings about Linspire, and the Lindows company.
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