Linspire the latest to sign pact with the devil

In his blog entry Linspire the latest to sign pact with the devil
Dave Rosenberg is pretty straight forward

The fact that the irrelevant players like Linspire and Xandros (I would even extend irrelevance to Novell) sign these agreements is an embarrassment to the rest of the Linux vendor community.

He might go a step too far by calling Novell irrelevant but I think he's right on the sweet spot on Linspire and Xandros.

In over 10 years of Linux and Open Source consultancy, I didn't ran into 1 European customer running on any of those distributions. So why should I care if they sell their soul to the devil ?