One of the questions people have asked me; Why do you continue to honor Lindows lifetime members even though Linspire Inc is no longer around? I dont do it because I am some self righteous prick who wants to be seen as a good guy. The reason I do it is because those people who spent that money years ago got fucked over. There is no better way to put it.
Its not a drama thing for me to cause any kind of uproar but Linspire Inc in its final days screwed people over. They were selling the lifetime membership thing THE SAME DAY they made the announcement that they were selling to Bridgeways. So what we do is I said look, if you were a Lindows lifetime member and I dont have the record if you give me the actual receipt I will honor it. In the 7 years we have been making and marketing Linspire we have continued honoring the Lindows lifetime agreements. Some have been screaming at me "Thats not fair!!!!" The way I see it it is fair. Whats not fair is for me to say "Ok you have to have bought lifetime between this year and that year. The weather had to be sunny and 75 or cloudy and 68." You do it for one you do it for EVERYONE or dont do it at all. I will continue to do it. If you contact us if we cant find it in the database and you have the actual receipt we will honor it for as long as we make Linspire.
This year we will also continue to offer Linspire for free on December 25. Christmas day the download is made available free of charge for 24 hours. We have done that every year since we started making Linspire. We will continue to do so for as long as we make it.
