● 06.06.22

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●● The Linux Foundation is in No Position to Lecture or Write About Open Source Software (OSS), Which It’s Consistently Rejecting

Posted in Site News at 4:38 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Video download link | md5sum 468a226b473b704c47a374d6eb6d940aLinux Foundation on OSS Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0

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http://techrights.org/videos/on-linux-foundation-reports.webm

Summary: The Linux Foundation, which has long been run by proprietary software companies, is herding coders and their code into the arms of Microsoft’s proprietary software (such as GitHub), so isn’t it weird that the Foundation claims to be the authority on the subject of “OSS”?

run by proprietary software companies

such as GitHub

THE Linux Foundation has released a report about "OSS" using only proprietary software, but that’s not the worst part. As I show in the video above, the Foundation promotes a misleading, revisionist history. It moreover promotes proprietary corporations’ interests, including surveillance and openwashing thereof.

Linux Foundation

released a report about "OSS" using only proprietary software

> “As I show in the video above, the Foundation promotes a misleading, revisionist history. It moreover promotes proprietary corporations’ interests, including surveillance and openwashing thereof.”

The main conclusion is that the Linux [sic] Foundation has the potential to actually be about Linux and about “OSS”; but it’s not there. The problem or the rot starts at the top management, not just evasive Jim Zemlin and the Board. The funding structure of the Foundation likely attracted the wrath of the IRS already* and it means that the Foundation is beholden to anti-Linux and anti-”OSS” interests. All they want is openwashing and the occasional greenwashing. █ ______* It is June 2022 already, i.e. almost late 2022. The last of the Linux Foundation’s IRS filings online go no further than: “Tax Year 2018 Form 990O” (don’t let political stunts distract from that)

evasive

Jim Zemlin

funding structure of the Foundation

the occasional greenwashing

↺ IRS filings online

political stunts

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