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Story: Linspire: Piracy can be a positive thing

Posted by: poppe (Tuesday 19 April 2005, 10:16 PM)

Get real Linspire!!! 17 years ago I remember piracy actually was an ok thing. A judge friend of mine had told me that so long as the copies of software I traded with my friends wasn't accompanied by money. Then no law had been broken. Additionally, if free trading of Linspire is ok, then why not make it available free of charge, and just charge people for customer support?
When I was a young child, my father told me to never be two-faced, and to never trust a hypocrite. Don't even believe for one second, that if Linspire is hurting terribly in their revenues. That Linspire won't sick the law on a known pirate who has been giving away Linspire. Also, on the odd chance that they are serious about this. Then it makes me wonder what will they implement into their code that will continue to reap money for them down the road. Could it be spyware, or maybe a logic bomb that destroys the OS after so long of no updates being included. Due to the fact that a pirated copy owner probably won't want to pay Linspire for updates.
All I've got to say folks is TREAD CAREFULLY on this one. Linspire might be starting to become like another Microsoft or another SCO. After all, there are a TON of fabulous Linux distributions available for free, legally!