Text 3350, 66 rader
Skriven 2005-09-21 15:17:45 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 3337 av MARTIN ATKINS (1:123/140)
Ärende: Linspire 5.0
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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 11:27:00 -0400, MARTIN ATKINS -> CHARLES ANGELICH
wrote:

 MA> The difference between you and i is that i actually use Linux where as
 MA> your just a wanna be Linux user so i can counter the misinformation
 MA> people like you spread.

Martin, you're wasting your time even answering his nonsense.  He just
likes to argue for the sake of it.  Anyone who has had any experience of
communicating with him for any length of time has him filtered out.  After
all these years of posting in FIDO and ILink I finally had to place
someone in my kill filter.

 MA> Linspire didn't produce wine they probably only tweaked it and i would
 MA> speculate that all they did i play around with some scripts. So did they
 MA> pay the original programmers? I'll bet they didn't so yet again they are
 MA> profiting from other peoples effort.

I got a laugh out of that.  Wine has been around a lot longer than
Linspire.   And, BTW, I doubt the folks at Linspire tweaked Wine - they're
just using it and offering it for download.  As with most of their CNR
downloads the software is either open source or free.   CNR just makes it
easier to install.

 MA> If people wish to pay for the service that is their prerogative. Since
 MA> you don't know what information Charles Scaglione sent me you are just
 MA> assuming that he is using the Linspire service.

He's just spouting off again.  He contends that those who received
Linspire for free shouldn't look for other free software?   Maybe he needs
to be reminded that the software available via CNR is for the most part
open source or free.

 MA> If i'm wrong then i hope Charles will put me right but the information
 MA> he sent me doesn't require the Linspire service and in his original post
 MA> suggested that he would show people how to carry on using the Linspire
 MA> free of the its service. It was at that point you accused him of being a
 MA> crook.

You are correct.  In any event, regardless of how one obtained Linspire -
either by paying for it or downloading a copy during their free offer,
buying and using the CNR service is an option.  Because I purchased WinXP
and MS Office Pro, does that mean I should have rushed right out and
purchased a subscription to their MSDN service?  Showing others how to
save money by not having to purchase the Linspire CNR service is not
illegal nor does it violate any licensing agreement with them.

If others wish to purchase the CNR service that's their choice.  If Mr.
Angelich feels Linspire is not getting their just due, he's welcome to
purchase as many copies as he wishes and to additionally support their
efforts by purchasing the CNR "Gold" service for each copy.

 MA> Living in the past does not excuse you current behavior. I don't need a
 MA> history lesson from you. Every BBS i have used has asked for voluntary
 MA> donations and every BBS i have used for any degree of time i have
 MA> contributed to. You should try it some time.

As I said above, you're wasting time by even responding to him.  It's kind
of too bad because he could provide something of value here and in Win95.

Regards.

chscag at gmail dot com

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