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:2006-09-05
"I don't think anyone has a problem with selling support licenses or making money from OSS. Rebadging it and pretending it's your own creation is an entirely different matter."
You spread more FUD than Microsoft...
You should send your resume to Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer and include links to your posts. I am sure that they would make you a VP of the FUD machine, straight out.
It cracks me up when people such as yourself have NO CLUE, but spout off anyway. Oh well... it's always good for a laugh.
Harvey
Member since:2006-06-19
Member since:2006-02-01
Look guy, just like Kevin Carmony, you too can carry your troll ass back over to your own forums.
Keep it up and I'll be the first one to take advantage of the fact that you run your Lincrap box as root. Yes, I am very aware of your posts over on those other forums. Freaking disgraceful.
Member since:
2006-02-01
I don't think anyone has a problem with selling support licenses or making money from OSS. Rebadging it and pretending it's your own creation is an entirely different matter.