Re: [PLUG] Linspire and Click-N-Run

[Jason Nocks <nocksj@sourcextreme.com>]

I mentioned at the PLUG meeting last week that I would talk to a couple of 
folks from Linspire about the issue of Click-N-Run disabling already 
installed software. Tom Welch from Linspire sent me the following message:

"CNR does not in any way disable any software that you have installed with the 
exception of service based software such as SurfSafe 
<http://www.linspire.com/surf_safe_info.php> or VirusSafe 
<http://www.linspire.com/products_virussafe_whatis.php>.  In SurfSafe, if you 
do not renew your subscription, the filtering 'service' no longer works.  In 
VirusSafe, if you stop paying for the service, you no longer get updates to 
new viruses but the scanning still works fine.

To reiterate, any software that you install on your system is yours to 
keep.  The only thing that CNR does is make it easy to install, update 
or remove software."

Tom also added the following:
"I may mention also that CNR has never disabled software."

Cheers,
Jason Nocks

On Thursday 03 November 2005 7:14 pm, Jason Nocks wrote:
> There was some discussion at the meeting last night about distributions.
> Personally, I use kubuntu. I did mention that Linspire seems to be getting
> better at trying to work with the community.
>
> Linspire hosted the "Open Source Desktop Workshops" conference in San Diego
> at their facility (see http://www.osdw.org). I was pleasantly surprised at
> how interested the folks from Linspire seemed at working with the
> community, hosting a post-even KDE hack-session, etc. One of the Linspire
> executives even attended part of the KDE hack-session just to see what it
> was like, etc.
>
> Last night someone else mentioned that Linspire's Click-N-Run disables
> software after you stop paying for the service. I don't have any experience
> with this. Has anyone on this list actually tried Linspire's distribution
> and/or Click-N-Run? I may also post a question to one or more of the folks
> at Linspire to get a response, but I'd be interested in any experience from
> an actual user.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason Nocks
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