Comment by lproven

Lindows became Linspire.

Because Microsoft sued over the name:

https://www.networkcomputing.com/data-center-networking/micr...

Linspire was paid-for, and later introduced Freespire as the free community version.

https://practical-tech.com/2007/08/05/linspire-ceo-kevin-car...

Remarkably enough, it is still available. I reviewed the then-latest version in 2023.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/15/freespire-95-breezes-...

It's a successor in name only; the company acquired the Freespire and Xandros brands. The product, sadly, is unrelated. (I say "sadly" because it had a pretty good desktop based on KDE 2.x.)

But -- yes, you're right, it sort of is.