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Lindows Love?

I haven't had a chance to run the OS yet, but what I see on the big screen is making me wanna take a closer look. The room is full of geeks – my kind of people. What we heard was a push for a friendlier flavor of Linux. I hate to say it to the naysayers, but: this needs to happen if the operating system is ever going to find its place on the desktop. Some will contend that it'll never happen; others say that it SHOULD never happen. I'm somewhere in the middle. With a winterfresh Altoid in my mouth, I'm nost shocked at the pitch. Selling access to application, not necessarily the software upon which the applications run. And if you think that this is the wrong thing to do, you shouldn't invest any more money in Windows or Apple products. That's the way it's going to be within a matter of years. Take a look at .Mac and MSN 8: it's everybody's future. I wouldn't be surprised if (in five years) Microsoft gave their OS away and upsold you on their range of services. Bah, humbug? Watch it happen.

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Honestely, I use .Mac on a daily basis and couldn't/wouldn't/shouldn't be without it. I'd say Lindows is – at the very least – heading in the right direction.

Now there's a thought: forget about Palladium controlling which apps can use which files. Instead, think of a Microsoft operating system that can ONLY use Microsoft applications (or, Microsoft approved applications). In that case, they could give the OS away for free, since it would be useless without the pay-per-use apps.

I don't know if you have seen this or not, but it fits in with what you are doing now.
http://www.ubergeek.tv/switchlinux/

Ahhhh… the good old application on tap model. Yeah. Its going to happen. Why install word when you can just use it as a web service (No, not like a .net web service) If you think about the model, it has allot of potential.

How good is the Lindows OS CHRIS?

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