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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. As a result, Linspire has become the largest referrer of DistroWatch.com this month and the company has been responsible for a considerable number of extra hits on the Freespire page at DistroWatch.

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I've just spent the last hour slowly reading the thread on the Freespire forums... Kind of sad really, one of the reasons I started using GNU/Linux is to get away from silly FUD and stupid marketing stunts. Too bad for Freespire, it has quite a bit of potential...