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Posted in GNU/Linux, Kernel at 9:11 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
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Summary: Linux as a project and as a brand is being undermined by monopolies, whose so-called ‘Linux’ Foundation is more like an openwashing incubator
THE past few days we saw loads of fluff from Zemlin’s PAC and from Mr. Zemlin himself. Was it a distraction? A countermeasure? It’s hard to know for certain, but surely Linux is besieged by people who don’t care about Linux and never use Linux, causing severe branding issues.
=> ↺ loads of fluff | ↺ countermeasure
As noted in the video above, there are trademark violations by a trans artist (made apparent again last night) and even worse things, e.g. a legal case where a “Linux partition” was brought up in news sites like a dozen times this past week, sort of connecting it to child pornography (links omitted intentionally). Are we actually advancing Linux as a project and as a brand?
=> as a brand
“Are we actually advancing Linux as a project and as a brand?”
With the Southern Poverty Law Center associating/connecting Free software to extremism (it’s doing the same thing to Bitcoin this week) we need to be carefully watching to avert severe brand erosion. The brand “Linux” took more than 30 years to build (millions of people promoted this brand), but over the past 3 years Zemlin’s PAC has done severe damage to the brand, associating it with some of the very things Linux is against. This is how Zemlin and his friends make a lot of money — essentially killing the brand and sending its owner (trademark holder) to see therapists as if he was mentally sick, admitting culpability in a forced public ‘apology’. The Communist regime in China and the Soviets, sometimes even Iran’s merciless autocracy, are renowned or notorious for yielding false confessions of this kind. It’s blackmail.
=> Southern Poverty Law Center associating/connecting Free software to extremism | ↺ doing the same thing to Bitcoin this week | sending its owner (trademark holder) to see therapists
Anyway, given what we wrote about the IRS status, Zemlin going into ‘hiding’, and Microsoft domestic violence being covered by the heads of the board (at the Linux Foundation) we thought it would be worth expressing or putting into words the dire situation, which is getting worse before it gets any better. █
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