Linspire, the Linux company started by high-tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson, is ready to fully assume its place as a footnote in operating system history. As previously noted, the company is being ...

Founded in 2001 as Lindows (a named changed as part of a settlement deal with Microsoft, following a trademark-infringement lawsuit), Linspire has carved out a niche in the Linux desktop field but ...

The San Diego-based company is taking a different approach to Linux by focusing on mimicking Microsoft Windows. Linspire looks to make links as easy as possible and boasts that its flavor of the ...

Linspire is giving away free copes of its Linux desktop operating system, called Linspire Five-0, until Sept. 6, the company announced on Thursday. Linspire Five-0 normally costs $49.95, but Linspire ...

BOSTON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Linspire Inc., one of three Linux software makers that broke with the open source community by signing patent deals with Microsoft Corp. , disclosed on Wednesday that its ...

Linspire has signed an intellectual-property agreement with Microsoft that shields the Linux company’s customers from patent claims. Microsoft Corp. has claimed Linux and related open source software ...

Linspire, the Linux desktop vendor and minor Microsoft blighter (formerly known as Lindows), released the latest version of its operating system last week with several tweaks and new features aimed ...

San Diego-based Linspire announced yesterday that it has shipped the latest version of its desktop Linux package, Linspire Five-0. The Linspire-packaged version of the open source operating system ...

Linspire Inc., best-known for its commercial distribution of Linux aimed at consumers, said today it will create a free, open-source version called Freespire. The San Diego firm hopes to persuade ...

A recent development that could result in an uptick in corporate Linux desktop adoption had nothing to do with the open source community, foreign or U.S. government rulings, or legal fillings by SCO ...

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Microsoft Corp., the Redmond, Wash., software giant, and Linspire Inc., the San Diego provider of Linux software for desktop computers, said they would cooperate on a broad ...