Post-Coronavirus Linux.com Became Nothing But a SPAM Site
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2020-09-22 05:36:07 UTC
Modified: 2020-09-22 05:36:07 UTC
2019-2020 (after all the staff was laid off): Linux.com acting as a SPAM site or a PR dumping ground for sponsors. This means that proprietary software is routinely being promoted under the cherished "Linux" brand (without approval from the venerable trademark holder).
From their very own marketing material (this is what they've reduced Linux.com to):
Last night (it's still going on):
Summary: As per the Linux Foundation's very own brochure, scripted and fake 'interviews' are to be produced and then edited/negotiated (before publication) with the sponsor... in Linux.com as the platform. This is corruption (or marketing, one might call them de facto ads presented as fake 'articles').
If the Web gets polluted or flooded by slopfarms such as these, and Slashdot then sends traffic so these slopfarms (Slashdot probably doesn't do this intentionally), then real writers with real knowledge of GNU/Linux will lose the spark for publishing
Those of us who actually want to reform the industry and put users in control of their systems/devices will recognise that "Open Source" was selling a lie or got-co-opted by liars
