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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Member since:2006-02-01
"As the one who locked said thread, I can say that your statement is the furthest thing from the truth. There was an issue brought up by a member of the forums, it was resolved in less than 24 hours (on a holiday weekend, no less) by the CEO of Linspire.... and that was that. "
You people keep saying the issue is a "dead horse". How is that remotely true when this is less than 24 hours old and, there still has not been a satisfactory response from kevin. "Everyone else does it" just won't cut it. I didn't put words in anyone's mouth. All one has to do to verify my previous comment is look at the thread themselves.
Member since:2006-09-05
" How is that remotely true when this is less than 24 hours old and, there still has not been a satisfactory response from kevin."
That is YOUR opinion. Kevin had ALL the links changed when he found out about it... done deal, story finished... dead horse.
As I said, if YOU don't like it... that's cool by me. I'll loose a whole pico seconds worth of sleep over it tonight.
Harvey
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2006-09-05
"EDIT: BTW you guys should check the end of that thread again. They basically came ot the conclusion that anyone who drifts from the Kevin Carmont curcle jerk should get out, and then locked the thread. "
As the one who locked said thread, I can say that your statement is the furthest thing from the truth. There was an issue brought up by a member of the forums, it was resolved in less than 24 hours (on a holiday weekend, no less) by the CEO of Linspire.... and that was that.
We are trying to build a friendly, helpful community at Freespire, and the thread was obviously degenerating to the point that the "dead horse" was beaten over and over again. There were NO more useful points or couterpoints given, since the "problem" was solved, so I locked the thread. If you don't like that... that's cool by me. I don't really care one way or the other what you think of me, but don't put words or actions about me from YOUR mouth, as you obviously don't know.
And yes... I registered here to be able to post, and this is my first post... I freely admit. However, no animals were hurt during the composition of this post... ;-)
Harvey