[Wylug-discuss] Webtraffiker

[Dave Fisher]

Hi Mark,

It does look like you've got the wrong end of the stick on two counts:

  1. Lots of OSS supporters are greedy capitalist swine who like OSS
  precisely because it frees markets from some of their social
  contraints (like the cultural interia which underlies Microsoft's
  monopoly power).

  2. It doesn't make much sense to bother writing a website that no one
  sees.  One of the side-effects of elegant standards compliant web
  design is a higher search engine rank.  Does that mean that search
  engine optimisation is OK, if you don't do it on purpose?

Dave

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 05:02:51PM +0000, Mark Ruddell wrote:
> Dear listees,
>
> I've been lurking here trying to understand what it's all about. I'm
> sorry to display my ignorance so. I had thought that Free Software was
> (amongst other things) about freeing the consumer from the systematic
> deceptions upon which all marketing relies. How can you guys even engage
> with this SEO crap?
>
> All these techniques to interfere with the sequence of results people
> find when they do a search are a way of distorting reality. It's lying.
> It's wrong.
>
> I'm sorry to be ranting, I really must have got the wrong end of the
> stick somewhere. Can anyone explain?