Linspire got caught in the middle of a free accidental giveaway of its desktop Linux software, after the software developer was hit by naming confusion in the Linux community.
In a statement on its web site, Linspire said that it would give away its Linspire software through September 6th, as Linux users thought that they could get a free
copy of the Linspire Linux distribution through an alternate Linux distribution "Freespire" showed up on Linux distribution sites last week.
As it turned out, an independent developer created "Freespire" based on the open-source components released from Linspire (as a condition of open source licenses) and released it to the site Distrowatch.com.
Many people downloaded the "Freespire" distribution certain that it contained a free version of the Linspire software.
Trying to overcome the confusion over the software, Linspire said that it is giving away copies of its software to users in order to interest them in the real product.
The software company has added a digital coupon code 'freespire' that enables downloads of the company's software for free.
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