He must have got a LOT of $$$ from them to give it up, cuz it was ONLY in the US where he COULD use the name Lindows without problems. M$ had lost the battle there. It was in idiotic Euro-courts that failed to realize the prior art and other similar Trade name usage history and blanket stop him from the efforts.

I’ve used Lindows, it’s not so great. Now he really doesn’t have much to rave about or garner free publicity. Lindows (linspire) is not inspiring. The built in Wine didn’t work, didn’t config using the tools, etc.

There are better live CD options than this distro. Sorry to say dude, but you should get Slax, or Knoppix, or Mandrake Move, or Suse Eval, etc, etc, etc. Linspire just, well… doesn’t.