Anti-Linux Propoganda on a Linux Site
Here is a paragraph I saw on the Distrowatch.com website
We urge our visitors to boycott LINUXTODAY.COM. LINUXTODAY.COM is currently sponsored by Microsoft Corporation and displays sponsored anti-Linux content on its web site. We consider this practice immoral and hypocritical for a web site that acts as a Linux advocacy resource.
PLEASE DO NOT VISIT LINUXTODAY.COM.
I checked out this claim and it's true. LinuxToday.com has Microsoft Banner Ads that link to the "Microsoft Whitepapers" that claim that Linux is 4 times hard and 3 times more expensive than linux.
If you would like to see my thoughts on the matter I have them posted at LinuxQuestions.org. The post got locked so you can't reply but you can still see it. Just Click Here
posted by Aaron @ 10:11 AM
1 Comments:
This was an eye-opener. I for one will make a point of never visiting LinuxToday.com unless I hear that they have declined further advertising from Microsoft and apologized for ever accepting it in the first place.
I took up Linux because I could no longer tolerate the immoral and predatory tactics of Microsoft and would no longer support them by using their products. Now 100% MS free, Linux is not easy for me, but I will quit using computers before I will use Microsoft. Period.
Jon Rutherford, Kansas City, MO (fellow LQ member, by the way)
(Only "anonymous" because I don't wish to have a Blogger account just now.)
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