[Leaplist] Linspire joins MS patent deal

[Jimmy]

Knew this was coming.  After reading the GPLv3 letter by Kevin Carmony I  
gathered that this was his out.  When God (no offense) signs up with M$ it  
will be the end for sure!

I particularly think the it is a bad idea to access some of the code like  
TTF and voice (and others to come) because it is M$ agenda to make sure  
that free/open source software is obscured by the muck of closed code.   
Linspire, Novell and Xandros are only helping M$ in their quest.

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:00:51 -0400, Ray Brunkow  
<ssma at sunstatemartialarts.com> wrote:

> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070614/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_linspire;_ylt=AvVYijIGjPVnh7.CbDc2FCXMWM0F
>
> RLiegh <http://slashdot.org/%7ERliegh> sends us to an AP article
> reporting that Linspire has signed a patent deal with Microsoft
> <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070614/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_linspire;_ylt=AvVYijIGjPVnh7.CbDc2FCXMWM0F>.
> The company, which started out life as "Lindows," joins a growing
> <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/06/04/1630233.shtml?tid=109> list
> <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/06/07/1731252.shtml?tid=155> of patent
> <http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/04/20/1440218.shtml?tid=155> agreements
> reached between Microsoft and vendors
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/05/26/0631242.shtml?tid=223>.
> Linspire will be granted a license to use True Type Fonts and "various
> code" that would allow for Linspire users to use voice on Windows Live
> Messenger as well as the usual patent protection
> <http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/11/10/1929210.shtml?tid=109> for
> Linspire's customers. In return, among other things, Linspire will make
> Microsoft's search engine the default search on PCs shipped with their
> OS. Kevin Carmony, the CEO for Linspire, approached Microsoft a year and
> a half ago, according to the article.
>
> I like the idea of the access to some of the code like TTF and the VOICE
> access, but i think it is funny yto put MS search engine as the
> default.  i am guessing that is for the web browser as linux does not
> have explorer.
>



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