Microsoft Uses the Word "Linux" to Promote Privacy-Infringing Proprietary Software and Spread FUD | Linux Today

Microsoft Uses the Word “Linux” to Promote Privacy-Infringing Proprietary Software and Spread FUD

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Roy Schestowitz
Sep 10, 2019

The discussion about “Linux” is being saturated if not replaced by misinformation and marketing of Linux’s competition – owing largely to googlebombing tactics that the Linux Foundation participates in rather than tackle

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Roy Schestowitz

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