Freespire reloaded
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| 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.
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http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060904#freespire
it seems like Lindows is 'pulling a Windows', but doing that in a more subtle
way. Microsoft sponsors so-called 'studies', threatens OEM's who wish to
stock Linux, and tinkers with Web stats by forcing, through violation of
standards, many users to identify themselves as Win/IE users. Among other
tactics that put a false impression and serve as FUD. We're all part of an
experiment where multi-billion dollar control of media and technology
delivers disinformation.
Bill Gates lends cash to buy newspapers
$350 million to MediaNews
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| Gates involvement has been very behind the scenes. In fact many of
| those involved in the deal didn't even know he was one of the investors.
| It was carried out through the Gates Foundation, the world's largest
| philanthropy outfit.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33849
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