"USALUG: I looked on your website, and tried to download a version of Lycoris. I looked and looked, but I have to pay fifty dollars to buy it. All major distributions of Linux are offered in media form, and sold for a price to support the community. Until recently, all or nearly all of these distributions also offered a free downloadable version. Before Red Hat halted on the production of Red Hat Linux it was selling and providing free versions of its distribution. With many questions, I shall attempt to make them few, What makes Lycoris a product that people are going to pay for rather than download a free distribution?
"Jason Spisak: Actually you are incorrect. You cannot download Suse, Lindows, Xandros for free and there are probably a few others. But beyond that, Lycoris is not a Linux distribution. Desktop/LX is a desktop operating system. We have created a cohesive whole out of many parts. We mind the dependencies, trimmed down the application set, simplified the interface. Lycoris has put a lot of work into making a viable desktop product that an average, non-techincal user can sit down with and be productive right away. That's what people pay Lycoris for. To make sure everything works. To not have to worry about downloading and compiling. To not have to use the CLI. To not have to worry about library revisions. Lycoris is available for the non-technical user. Essentially, the non-Linux user..."
