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Summary: The Linux brand is still under attack; when one searches for "Linux" and instead gets Windows and other proprietary Microsoft things perhaps it's time to consider the possibility that Microsoft intentionally distorts the word as means of brand diffusion/dilution

THERE is ongoing rage over the latest Microsoft/systemd/Lennart Poettering move, in effect trying to lock down Linux and shut out people who exercise Software Freedom. This has been discussed in our IRC channels for several days already.

"It's frustrating to see a bunch of lies repeated for Microsoft..."The video above goes through all sorts of ways in which Microsoft tries to distort the narrative, bribing prominent bloggers with a "dev kit" and seeding puff pieces about Windows on Raspberry Pi. Phoronix's front page is shown to highlight the increasing complicity in x86 complexity/hegemony, in effect distracting from systems most suitable for GNU/Linux because Michael Larabel is paid (with gifts [sic]) to promote back-doored, opaque, heavily-patented nonsense designed for Windows, not Linux. It's frustrating to see a bunch of lies repeated for Microsoft; the loyalty there is to money, not to freedom and Windows-centric sites 'googlebomb' the word/name "Linux" with headlines such as "Thanks to Microsoft you could soon run multiple nested Windows inside Linux" (yay! MOAR Windows!!).

"If the identity of the brand is not preserved, then more people will refer to the system as "GNU/Linux", seeking to be clearer about what they stand for or advocate."Microsoft isn't a buddy of Linux. Microsoft attacks Linux and what better way to attack than by doing it from the inside? That's rather easy to see and it's pretty revealing that they are actually trying to promote Windows, not "Linux" (all sorts of Windows things they inaccurately describe using the trademark "Linux", with the blessing of the so-called 'Linux' Foundation because it gets paid by Microsoft).

If the identity of the brand is not preserved, then more people will refer to the system as "GNU/Linux", seeking to be clearer about what they stand for or advocate. ⬆