What's the phone number of the Linux community again?
The Linux community "as a whole" will not help because
1. It is a community like the "community of nations", i.e. not a community at all.
2. It has mostly given up on conquering the desktop market and is now content with owning the server and mobile markets. (See recent Ubuntu news.)
3. It is not interested in solving this problem since it doesn't affect them.
Perhaps the Windows community "as a whole" could grow a spine and do something about it, though.