[ale] OT: Bad Linspire....tsk tsk

[KingBahamut]

Sigh. I kind of have to aggree Richard. Being an ubuntu user, its sad to see
another debian based distro go down into the annuls of "what can we do to
get better business"-non-ethics. I think that Carmony should have taken
better care in his responses. Trying to rationalize it out as impossible
made him look even bigger of a <insertderagtorycommenthere>

On 9/6/06, Richard Kolkovich <sarumont at sigil.org> wrote:
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> On 09/05/06 10:40, KingBahamut blabbered::
> > http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060904#freespire
> >
> > from the article
> >
> > "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
> > rankings 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.
> > As a result, Linspire has become the largest referer of DistroWatch.com
> > this
> > month and the company has been responsible for a considerable number of
> > extra hits on the Freespire page at DistroWatch.
> >
> > Although the redirections continued for several days, the Freespire page
> > hit
> > counter was unaffected. As always, excessive and deliberately misleading
> > links to DistroWatch by distributions are considered illegal and a
> script
> > was promptly set up to prevent the counter from incrementing in cases
> where
> > the visitors were referred by linspire.com or nvu.com."
> >
> > Sigh.....bad Linspire...bad......
> >
>
> I think it is a testament to the distro's (lack of) success.  When you
> have to resort to such tactics to make others think your product is
> popular, you are in sad shape.  :-\
>
>
> - --
>
> Richard Kolkovich
> sarumont at sigil.org
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