I noticed that it does offer Fluendo for purchase at a reduced
rate. Fluendo is trying to offer streaming media and codecs to the *nix world
and it is a commercial enterprise.

I have some philosophical issues with Linspire, the parent company for CNR. They
have for a long time rebranded open source material to make it look like they
have done the work when all they have done is give it a makeover. However, the
fact is that some people like ease of use and CNR will appeal to such people. I
don't like the lack of security though. I suppose the appeal to some people is
that it will eventually offer the same repositories to all distributions instead
of having them fragmented as they are today. People running smaller distros are
likely to enjoy having more packages at their disposal.

I also agree that Synaptic and Adept work just as well for most people. It is
all about having choices. CNR is but one more choice. Another project that may
have some appeal is Automatix which is available for other Debian distros as
well. They Automatix developers stopped the project saying they were devoting
their energy elsewhere and Kubuntu as expressed an interest in keeping it going.
Obviously they see some potential in it. There are several other package options
including Klik and Autopackage. For some reason packaging seems to be an ongoing
concern.

Uniformity is not an issue with me, but one of the biggest gripes of new users
is that they cannot make sense of things because there is too much choice with
Linux. I guess you can't please everybody.