p2p news / p2pnet:- There seems to have been a slight difficulty between Andrew Betts’ freespire project and Mike Robertson’s not-free Linspire.

“The freespire project is changing its name, as it is creating confusion and misunderstanding,” says Betts on his web site. “The project will now be assuming the name ‘squiggle‘.

“ ‘freespire’ was the term I gave to a private project I had been working on. The project was comprised of various open source components, taken from the freely available source repository for the Linspire operating system. Somehow my project got submitted to distrowatch.com as a bona-fide Linux distribution. I can only assume whoever did this had good intentions, unfortunately it was done without my consent.

“Subsequent widespread distribution of this project has led to much misunderstanding, based largely on the name. So to make it clear:

“This project is not a free version of the Linspire operating system and is not made by Linspire Inc.”

Over at Linspire, “The only true ‘Freespire,’ would need to be a FREE COPY of the real LINSPIRE,” says the site.

So, “We thought it would be fun, for all of those who were looking at this project to experience a true ‘Freespire’, to give away a free digital copy of Linspire for a few days! This is actually a great way to highlight what it is that makes Linspire special and unique, and different from other Linux distributions.”

Get yer free digital copies of Linspire until Labour Day ; )

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