Re: [SLE] Adding a DVD Player to Commercial product

On 09/03/06, kai <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Monday 06 March 2006 05:51 pm, Steven Pasternak wrote:
sargon wrote:
On Sunday, 5-March-2006 19:09, Steven Pasternak wrote:
I know that this is the opposite of 'free', but linspire offers a
dvd player for $10 on their site. It is a rip-off, but at least it
is available. -Steven

It is $10 only for those people who pay $50 a year for Linspire's
"Clink 'N Run" Gold service. Otherwise it is $40.

Good luck getting it to run on a non-Debian distribution.

I wasn't talking about getting THAT dvd player on SuSE, I just mean the
idea that even though it is not included, and you might have to pay a
little, it is still available to the average user from the distributor.

Yeah, that would be nice.

Here's the Linspire version:

http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.php?product_id=11804

I don't see why someone hasn't decided on this as a niche business model for
the *nix community.

/me runs off with an idea...
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Kai. It looks like it is Linspires own software rather than a third
party paid by Linspire. I could be wrong of course. It is certainly
closed source - of course :-( But I agree, surely Linspire could
easily do some ports to other distros and offer it for sale. Ok, it
will make some people throw their arms in the air and scream blue
murder while beating themselves with barbed sticks :-) But they don't
have to buy it. It could be just another option and that's what Linux
is about, options.

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