in august 2005, andrew betts released a live cd based on linspire and named "freespire". linspire, inc. offered users a "free linspire" (purchase price discounted to $0) by using the coupon code "freespire" until september 9 2005. on april 24 2006, linspire announced its own project named "freespire". this follows the model of community-oriented releases by red hat and novell in the form of fedora and opensuse. freespire is a community-driven and -supported project tied to the commercial linspire distribution, and includes previously proprietary software from linspire, such as the cnr client, while other elements, which linspire, inc. licenses but does not own, like the windows media audio compatibility libraries, remain closed-source.