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Joining the thread late I know but...
My friend has a full legal version of Lindows 2.0. OK, so looking into the folders you can see there is a folder labeled "Debain" so YES Lindows is based on Debian. The reason why is because they badly wanted an EASY way to upgrade the system, which Debian provides not just for system files but for applications as well. Lindows "click and run" is based on Debian's "appget". All other distros have update features, but only support system file upgrade.
I don't know about this running as root deal. I'll ask about that. I would have a hard time believing they would leave consumers vulnerable on purpose. There must be something MORE here than we know.
OK, so Not all the libraries are open source for Lindows. So what?! That doesn't make it NOT Linux. The files that are not open source deal not with the OS but with the updating feature and how it runs wine which is NOT NECESSARY for Linux. It is a commercial distro of Linux after all. They -should- keep their propriatary code closed. To do otherwise is stupid and saying Lindow is not Linux based on that fact is stupid too.
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