Linspire, Inc. was founded in 2001 to bring choice into the desktop operating system market. The company's flagship product Linspire, is an affordable, easy-to-use Linux-based operating system distributed primarily pre-installed on PCs for home, school, and business users. Linspire pioneered CNR Technology, which allows Linspire users access to thousands of software programs, each of which can be downloaded and installed with just one mouse click. The thousands of software titles available via CNR include full office and productivity suites, games, multimedia players, photo management software, accounting tools, and more. Linspire is also the company behind the Freespire Project, a free community-involved, Linux-based operating system that combines the best that free, open source software has to offer, but also provides users the choice of including proprietary codecs, drivers and applications as they see fit.