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

[Jeff Lightner]

These tactics are truly awwwwww linspiring...

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
KingBahamut
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:28 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Bad Linspire....tsk tsk

 

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.  :-\


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Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org


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