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Pretending Windows is Actually Linux
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EXACTLY one week ago we took note of the fact that Microsoft had been 'googlebombing' Linux as a brand and infiltrating Linux as a project. The Linux Foundation is complicit.
"We urge readers to speak to those authors who foolishly help promote WSL, which is in effect an attack on GNU/Linux."In the case of WSL (Linux subsubsystem for Windows) it means two birds, one stone. It ruins the quality of code (in Mesa too), it undermines open standards, and it leads people astray, thinking that Microsoft Windows is somehow "Linux" or that "Linux" can also mean Windows. Nothing could be further from the truth!
The video above shows 5 new examples, three of them from the past 24 hours' news. We call out the culprits and try to correct the record. We urge readers to speak to those authors who foolishly help promote WSL, which is in effect an attack on GNU/Linux. Almost nobody uses it anyway, so there's no compelling reason to give it any publicity. ⬆
"Mind Control: To control mental output you have to control mental input. Take control of the channels by which developers receive information, then they can only think about the things you tell them. Thus, you control mindshare!"
--Microsoft, internal document [PDF]