Google does recognize these inbound links and you can see this because when you check links on osswr.com it has 0 inbound links in google but a PR 3. googles new algorithm puts more emphasis on inbound links.
The people checking backlinks are webmasters and seo's so of course google doesnt want to show us everything because they dont want to help us do our job. They want it to be more natural.
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