Why should I go to a start-up company called Linspire?
There aren’t any companies out there like ours. When we talk about companies that are making real investments in desktop Linux it’s few and far in between. You have the ones that have announced it, but don’t do anything: Red Hat, SuSE, even Sun. Sun is a great server company, and so is Red Hat. But that business is very different from the desktop. That’s why we say until you can walk into a [large electronics chain store] and see a Linux computer on the shelf, desktop Linux will not go anywhere. How will desktop Linux get into those chain stores? One of the myths of open source is that, well, you just put the free software out there and then it ends up on computers. It just doesn’t work that way. The original equipment manufacturers need someone they can call, and they need to have an economic incentive. The source code might be freely floating around on the internet, but that doesn’t mean it’s free for the end consumer. Everybody has been looking at supporting the user for Linux to ge
