Linspire 6.0 Desktop Linux Operating System Released, Oct 10, 2007

Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, today announced the immediate availability of Linspire 6.0, the latest commercial release of the desktop Linux operating system.

Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems and CNR.com, a free Linux software delivery service, today announced the immediate availability of Freespire 2.0, the latest version of the free desktop Linux operating system.

This week we announced that CNR will soon be available for many of the most popular desktop Linux distributions, not just Linspire and Freespire.

Lindows.com, Inc. has submitted a motion to the United States District Court in the Western District of Washington asking the court to halt a flood of global trademark lawsuits Microsoft has filed against competitor Lindows. Dating back to 2001, Microsoft has filed multiple requests to shutdown Lindows.com in the U.S. Those requests have been repeatedly denied. Recently, Microsoft has begun filing separate lawsuits with identical claims in foreign courts to attempt to overrule those U.S. findings and block access to a U.S.-based company and website.

"Microsoft is purposely delaying the U.S. case from going to trial while they use their monopoly profits to fund a global legal assault on our small company to halt the adoption of Linux," said Michael Robertson, chief executive officer of Lindows.com, Inc. "The U.S. case has been ongoing for over two years and Lindows is looking forward to presenting extensive evidence to a Seattle jury demonstrating that windows is a generic word and that Microsoft secured a trademark only by committing fraud on the trademark office."

Would it be OK for a foreign Judge to rule that if someone calls my US office from another country that I cannot utter the word 'Lindows' when I answer the phone, simply because our phone lines were connected? And worse, if I answered the phone, should I incur a fine of 100,000 Euro per day? Our phones may be connected to some of the same wires that a web visitor would travel when connecting to the Lindows.com website. If they can insist a website be shut down so their residents cannot access it, why not the phone system as well? It sounds preposterous, but this appears to be what is unfolding in the Netherlands, and every Net citizen should be worried. We may be headed toward a world in which rich companies can shop around, repeatedly searching for a friendly court that is willing to ban content, ideas, products and choices with which they may disagree.

Lindows.com is pleased to announce LindowsHD, high-performance Seagate hard drives pre-loaded with a copy of LindowsOS! Computer manufacturers of all sizes can now compete aggressively for cost-conscious customers in the value segment of the PC business (sub-$500 desktops and sub-$1000 laptops) in the U.S. and in emerging markets.