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:2006-07-17
I have no authority over anyone else at the Freespire forums. If I was a mod, I would have locked it, but I am not, so I made a plea to have it locked, it had run it's course and had degenerated. I am a mod at other forums, but in most, I am a mere mortal who adheres to the rules of any given community.
Member since:2006-07-17
If you feel that I have personally wronged you, you are free to contact me through PM or even here and I will answer to my crimes and apologize for them as publicly or as privately as you desire, Dean.
You tell me how I wronged you or abused or otherwise intimidated you and I will be a man and own up to it. If, however, I do not think I was in the wrong, I will make my case.
If you just want to question my right to post as I please, I'll not respond to you.
Member since:2006-06-19
I didn't question it any further. I said that it was true and I give you that. I just wanted to warn you that telling someone over here to tone it down is not the same as saying it over there.
That being said, reread your posts in that thread. You and Kevin Carmony sure kept the heat on me huh? And did you investigate the situation, did you keep a open mind and examine what I was saying? Did you even give me half a fair chance or did you redicule me with that "grassy knoll" crap and sidestep with talk of the amish? Did you partially quote Ladislav, pointing out the parts that made it look alright while brushing aside the fact that he said it was obviously intentional. I like how YOU decide there is no more to discuss.
Anytime you'll want to let this die I will too...
Waiting....
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2006-06-19
That is true. I give you that. But here you are simply a user, not the leadership tingy mabob so askign for a thread to be closed here probably will not work. Just so you know. I am also not sure that asking someon to tone down the personal attacks isn't just asking for more of the same.