Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 4th Sep 2006 17:59 UTC, submitted by deanlinkous
DistroWatch has brought to light an apparant fraud by Freespire. "Several readers have emailed us to let us know that Linspire has launched what can only be classified as an attempt to tamper with our page hit ranking statistics by trying to artificially inflate the page hit ranking figures for its new community distribution - Freespire. Upon investigation, it turned out that both linspire.com and nvu.com had been deceivingly redirecting visitors to the Freespire page on DistroWatch and that the default home page of Firefox in the latest build of Freespire had also been set to the same page." A thread on the Freespire forums about this issue is quite heated.
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2006-06-19
Yes that word is a favorite of them also. Anyone that doesn't have blue/green flags are trolls.
Anyone that knows me also knows that I gave a fair shot at freespire and spread the word that CNR was free and a step in the right direction and one I hoped would continue. I truly meant that! You blew it not me! Go ahead shovel all the blame over to me....oh it is all that deanlinkous doing, that evil troll making us look bad. No dude YOU made yourself loook bad nobody else!
Edited 2006-09-04 19:37