Monday, November 07, 2005
*ahem*
what i meant to say before my webbrowser ate my blog entry was to mention something that i've been meaning to blog about for a bit but somehow always forget to: linspire anounced a month or two ago that they passed the one millionth user (read: click-n-run activation) milestone. it's always interesting to read about such numbers as it gives us a peak at the scope of our user base. whatever the actual number of individual people that are running the most recent release of linspire, that's still a lot of kde users since you don't get past a million activations by having only a couple thousand people try your stuff ;)
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No seriously, I thought it was a great blog post compared to some of the other stuff this week.
Interesting about Linspire. I know people criticise them, but at least they've got involved with KDE in a way I hoped they would. That can only help them I think. Companies like Xandros should seriously think about doing the same.
This also shows that they must at least be making some money out of Click 'n' Run. Time will tell as to whether that's viable in the long-term, but that's what open source software, KDE and the businesses around them need - businesses going out, doing it and making it viable. Some people have great difficulty with that word when it comes to open source desktops - viable - and virtually no one has any sort of clue as to what it means it seems.
well, segedunum, i think this really IS serious. 1 million ppl willing to pay 5 dollars each month (that's a stunning 5 MILLION each month for linspire, 60 million each year!!!) isn't nothing. i think it is a lot. this really seems to be a paying strategy for linspire... i wish them the best. maybe i'll try linspire, once, as i would love to get some ppl to use it. even if they have to pay. now they pay for software (and are willing to pay, see all the ppl buying norton, or anti virus software), why not let them pay for linspire? and at least the mony is (partly) getting into KDE!
I'm glad Linspire supports KDE, but if they continue to run everything as root and they grow too large they'll end up ruining linux's image as a secure platform. Ubuntu has a good compromise for this, sudo, and they should adopt it.
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