You might remember the "RMS is a sexist" fiasco, where all sorts of articles poured out misrepresenting the Virgin of Emacs as the thing it parodies. That's a minor but nasty example. Software owners are constantly staging these things while their advertising and other messages are completely degraded.
This is a systematic thing and your question has encouraged me to finish up a few essays I've been working on. Some suggested reading includes, http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20071023002351958 http://techrights.org/2009/02/08/microsoft-evilness-galore/ http://techrights.org/2008/12/27/microsoft-shills-aka-te-secrets/ http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween1.html http://archive09.linux.com/articles/38081 http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20100312150121798 http://techrights.org/2009/03/16/smear-campaigns-against-foss-proponents/ http://techrights.org/2008/03/17/manufacturing-abuse/ http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/03/enough_about_me.html http://techrights.org/2009/05/02/perception-management-at-microsoft/ http://www.cypherpunks.to/~peter/zdnet.html On Friday 22 May 2015, [email protected] wrote: > will hill" easy to observe pattern of publishers missrepresenting GNU > and the FSF by all means at their disposal" > > examples?
