Windows (Vista 10) is Nowadays Being Sold as 'Linux'
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2019-11-30 07:55:24 UTC
- Modified: 2019-11-30 07:55:24 UTC

Summary: The tactic is working; over the course of Thanksgiving many sites that claim to be about GNU/Linux relayed Windows news, instead
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