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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 12, 2025,
updated Mar 12, 2025

It's 2025 and he's still at it:

Thank you, Bruce, for those lovely "insights". The man without an agenda...

Same site.

Thank you, Linux Foundation, for supporting such "journalism" in sites that repeatedly criticised you (until you started paying).

There has been more of the same this year. All the pages are full of 'Linux' Foundation ads that are not about Linux.

Thank you, Linux Foundation, for distracting from what Bill Gates did with Jeffrey Epstein at MIT.

Linux.com is thankfully on topic as well (screenshot from today). █

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