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Linspire have released version 6.0 of its Linuxbased distribution. In the distribution they sure haven’t saved on the ammo, they implemented support for Quicktime, windows media player, flash, Real, Microsoft OOXML and a lot more objects hated by most who are for free software.

Linspire uses all the space they got from the deal with Microsoft to ship proprietary components with the new version.

- As the first commercial release of Linspire on over two years, we continue our focus on making it easier for the user and offer packages where there are no “free” ones available, which gives a better support for hardware, filetypes and multimedia like MP3, real, flash, java, ATI, NVidia, WiFi and a lot more, said Linspire in their press release.

- Linspire 6.0 is also the first commercial distribution that includes an array of techniques from Microsoft like Windows Media, True Type Fonts and an OOXML-converter that allows users of OpenOffice.org open and edit Microsoft .docx documents.

The company has put an effort into making it as easy as possible for the user in the new version. Linspire themselves took the initiative and developed the service CNR.com (Click’n'Run) that lets the user look for and install software with just one simple click.

This will most likely not be welcomed with open arms, especially not by followers of free software. Linspire’s strategy can be interpreted as they are hoping on that the user base will switch to more windows users, who don’t have a strong opinion about open source and free software will grow strong and someday replace the old community, this is what one reply said on Slashdot.

You can read the whole press release at Linspire, personally I do not like what they are doing, but then again I have never run and never will run Linspire as that distribution never was and never will be something I want to use.

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