Inbound Links On Sponsored Themes Is A Promotion Technique?

Its been around the web forever and it isn’t anything new. But “installing” them on a sponsored theme that is being downloaded at large for free is a relatively recent twist. [A "sponsored" theme is a theme with embedded advertising, hence the inbound links.]
Since Matt decided to remove sponsored themes from WordPress.net this last week you would have thought it would be a topic of a somewhat different nature but apparently there is someone who believes that now is the time to go to the Sitepoint forum and begin a promotion for inbound links in sponsored themes! Incredibly (dripping with …read more