GNU/Linux Cannot Buy Fake Journalism and It Won't Bribe Large Publishers
Days ago: The Register MS, Payroll First | Weeks ago: The Register MS Selling Slop for Microsoft (Vapourware, Ponzi Scheme, False Claims)
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GNU/Linux is popular, widely appreciated/loved, and many people use it. But Free software developers don't purchase "sponsored" placements and that will never change.
So what's left to do?
Well, publishers that are horny for bribes ("I'll print this for you if you pay me") will need to perish, little by little...
Eventually, hopefully, honest ones will prevail.
Even Apple seems to be having issues as its sales depend on aggressive marketing, not good products. █
"After sixteen months spent seeding the trade press, it was time to think of the end users. For this, Waggener Edstrom leaked exclusive Windows 95 puff stories to all of the important newspapers and publications. The PR firm fed the New York Times a story with a marketing twist, the Wall Street Journal received a more technical angle, and People magazine got an exclusive revealing that NBC's Friends sitcom stars Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry would be doing a twenty-five-minute video, educating people on the wonders of Windows 95."
-Barbarians Led by Bill Gates, a book composed
by the daughter of Microsoft's Pam Edstrom