Today I received an e-mail from a user of Freespire and Linspire and they pointed me to a post from a person who questions the legitimacy of the company and our products. Which is fine people are allowed to have an opinion. Now I'm not going to link to the media site, its not a large well-known person and really the things he was saying have been covered before and refuted before. But because he claims he had never heard of PC/OpenSystems, which I can prove he has more on that later, before he decided to call the company and me into legitimacy using the word "shady" please allow me to retort.
PC/OpenSystems LLC has been in operation since 2008; 12 years. PC/OpenSystems LLC has been featured on FOX News, MSNBC, CNN, and many local North Carolina news and media. Our customers range from home users, hospitality services, grocery chains, food service, educational facilities, law enforcement, military, and of course media groups. Now not all of these industries use our operating system products some use Windows, Mac OS, and others but many of them do use the operating system products in their entirety. Our operating system products have been in development since 2008 with regularly released updates. I have been a freelance software developer starting in 1994, doing what I love and writing software for operating system platforms that existed before this individual was even born. So for a dubious, shady company we have been in operation way too long and have seen a lot of success.
Another thing is, why if this person thinks our company, our tactics, and our business practices are so god awful why would this individual purchase a copy of every single release that we put out? If you are doing this for attention make yourself unidentifiable dude.
But these and other tactics are sadly used in the tech community. It's odd that when you are fighting for a common cause, to enhance technology and broaden the human condition to tear down others because they have seen a measure of success is beyond me. Instead of saying "Great job, you are introducing Linux to a group that never would have used Linux, to begin with!!!!" or "Great job, you are introducing BSD to a group that never would have used BSD, to begin with!!!!" (Yes we have a commercial BSD product as well) is just terrible, tragic, and unproductive.
Now to call me into legitimacy is fine. No dirt off of my shoulders. People have been doing so for over 20 years and have all failed and been proven wrong. So, try again little boy; Try again...
