Linux companies never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity

Linux companies are extremely good at missing an opportunity to market themselves; in the wake of the disclosures of the NSA’s blanket surveillance, there have been plenty of chances to publicise the fact that Linux and its open source brethren provide a safe computing environment and that companies dealing in these wares will not be selling products with backdoors. But then Linux companies are always best at failing to capitalise when opportunity knocks.