It’s been a minute since Linux – the backbone of the internet these days, and for a while, Meta’s assets included – has been the target of a smear campaign by Big Tech. After all, the entire tech industry is benefiting from, and many big players have been contributing to the development of Linux, while appearing to make peace with the “little” competing, free and open source project. That war is well over – the good guys have won. In the past, Microsoft would go after Linux, with a CEO branding it “a cancer” at one point. But now, Meta appeared to reignite the controversy, censoring posts that reference Linux and DistroWatch.com as “cybersecurity threats” and blocking the account of the site. Of course, Facebook runs Linux servers, and as has already been noted, so does the rest of the internet/world. A major reason is the superior level of security and flexibility it provides, compared to, say, Microsoft Windows. But none of that stopped Facebook from reviving – if only briefly – the one-sided feud proprietary tech giants have against Linux, as posts mentioning it, and DistroWatch, got banned.