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In 2019 Techrights undertook the task of investigative inquiry regarding the Linux Foundation, a trade group headed by Jim Zemlin . Below are articles that belong to this series, listed in reverse older of publication. There are also much older articles .

September 2023



'Linux' Foundation: Made on Apple Mac With Proprietary Software (As Always)


Linux Foundation Newsletter for September 2023 is Out: Linux (Kernel) Hardly Even Mentioned, As Usual


Under the Linux Foundation, Which is Controlled by GNU/Linux-Hostile Companies, Linux.com is Just Linux Foundation Marketing Spew and Double-Postings (Dupes, Again, and No Actual Content)


Linus Torvalds is Paid 32,502 Dollars a Week, He Said Microsoft Was Too Focused on Money


Linux Foundation® (and Linux.com) as Perception Management



August 2023



How to Buy Your Keynote Speech From the Linux Foundation (the Case of Microsoft)


Linux Foundation Fails to Heed the Warning About Microsoft


Linux Foundation Leadership Team: Technical Advisory Board Now Google-Microsoft Majority


For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Linux.com Posts Duplicates in an Otherwise Mostly Dead Site That Just Links to LF Press Releases (Sales)



July 2023



Linux.com in 2003 Versus Linux.com in 2023


Understanding How the Linux Foundation Really Operates (Looking Beyond the Name and Marketing)


Linux Foundation Probably Reads Techrights Closely


More Red Flags in Proxima Systems


Meme: Love Me Tenderlessly


Shedding Light on Proxima Systems, the Linux Foundation's $2.5 Million Contractor


Linux Foundation Has Not Left Much of Linux.com Except Marketing Plugs for the Linux Foundation's Customers (Not Even Linux)


Linux.com Has Been Outsourced to a Private Company (Linux Foundation (LF) Contractor) and It's Recycling the Domain for Non-Linux Purposes


The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part VI: Examples of GNU and Linux Luminaries Targeted by Mobs


The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part V: Hit Piece Gone Wrong?


The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part IV: Hit Pieces and Public Shaming as Bargaining Cards


Meme: A Gross Misallocation of Capital


The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part III: Non-Technical People Trying to Ruin the Lives of the Geeks


The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part II: People Who Defamed Linus Torvalds Say Torvalds Was “Grateful” for It


The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part I: Somebody Wants to be Your 'Buddy'



June 2023



You Only Had One Job, Linux Foundation Contractor (and You Blew It, for $2,500,000 a Year!)


Upcoming New Series: The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry


Linux Foundation: Openwashing as a Service, Using Proprietary Software


Linux Foundation Openly Disrespectful of Linux and Its Founder


Linux Foundation 'Erased' Linux From Linux.com


Linux Foundation Has New Report About 'Open'... But It Uses Proprietary Software on Proprietary Platform


'Linux' Foundation Increases Number of Microsoft Employees in the Board of Directors to THREE, the Only Geek in the Board Has Left (or Got Removed)


The Name Linux Misused by People Who Never Even Used It


The Real Linux Foundation - Part 10: An 'International' Collaboration Organisation (for 'International' Projects) Where 90% of the Money is Spent in the United States


The Real Linux Foundation - Part 9: Use of Contractors Soared From 12 to 29 in Just Three Years, Value of Contracts Has Gone Up by a Lot


The Real Linux Foundation - Part 8: Example of Outsourcing to Contractors (Likely Without Tender/Bidding)


The Real Linux Foundation – Part 7: Giving Large Contracts to Former Staff (Yes, Corruption and Graft)


The Real Linux Foundation - Part 6: Raising Money From Monopolies, Living Extravagant Lifestyles, Crushing Software Communities


The Real Linux Foundation - Part 5: The Annual Cost of the Office Has Jumped to Almost 8 Million Dollars for Just 261 Employees (About $30,000 Per Employee Per Year)


The Real Linux Foundation - Part 4: How the Foundation Makes Its Money


The Real Linux Foundation - Part 3: How It Splits Into Subgroups, Including New Ones


What the 2022 Tax Filing (From 7 Months Ago, for Tax Year 2021) Teaches Us About the Linux Foundation


New Series: Inside the Real Linux Foundation


Jim Zemlin Boasting in 2022: Linux Foundation Has Revenue of Over 200 Million Dollars; IRS in 2022: Linux Foundation Has Revenue of 139 Million Dollars


'Linux' Foundation: Spendings on Salaries Increased More Than 20% in One Year


Linux Foundation Demotes Mr. Linux, Linus Torvalds, to Third (in Salaries), Only Uses Him for the Name


Linux Foundation 'Research' Has a New Report and Of Course It Uses Only Proprietary Software



April 2023



'Linux' Foundation Formally Selling SPAM Services in Violation of Terms of Services


Linux Foundation is Outsourcing Linux Development and Communications to Surveillance Giants



January 2023



Report: The So-called 'Linux' Foundation is Reducing Focus on Linux


Linux.com Dominated by Microsofters


Zemlins Should be Held Accountable Like Sam Bankman-Fried: Bakkt Nearly Penny Stock Now



December 2022



Linux Foundation: Monopolies Versus Monopolies, Always at the Expense of Communities of Volunteers


Meme: Linux Foundation Lecturing Us on Tolerance and Morality


The Linux Foundation's Annual Report Was Made on an Apple Mac and Published in Proprietary Web Site



November 2022



Open Source Initiative (OSI) Adds Mozilla and 'Linux' Foundation to Its Microsoft-Funded Attack on the GPL/Copyleft


Jim 'FTX' Zemlin: “My Wife Who is a Successful Technology Executive and Harvard MBA (and Fraudster Facing Class Action Lawsuit for Securities Fraud) Really Had an Obvious Look of Disappointment... When I Told Her I Worked at a Non-Profit” (sic)


This Month's 'Linux' Foundation Event (Linux Foundation Member Summit 2022) Sponsored by the Company That Attacks Linux


'Linux' Foundation Became an Instrument of Microsoft and Proprietary Software Openwashing


Linux Foundation Dumps Open Source Software, Moves to Proprietary Software, Breaks RSS Feeds, Barely Publishes Anything Anymore



October 2022



Microsoft's Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP): Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Security, Thanks to 'Linux' Foundation


Linux Foundation, Not 'Supply Chain' Nonsense, is Becoming the Biggest Threat to Linux Security and Computing Security (It's Deliberate)


'Linux' Foundation Games Social Control Media Sites to Defraud Clients


Jim Zemlin Idolises Microsoft and Bill Gates (in New Talk Published This Week), Applauding a Back Doors Company and Jeffrey Epstein’s Enabler


Money Corrupts: The New Stack (TNS) Violates Its Own Policy for 'Linux' Foundation, Repeatedly Publishes Misleading Propaganda Without Any Disclosure


Money Talks at 'Linux' Foundation: From 'Open Source Loves Microsoft' to 'Thank You to Our Sponsors, Especially to Our Diamond Sponsor Microsoft'


Linux Foundation Events Now 'Run' by Linux's Biggest Foe


‘Linux’ Foundation, While Hoarding Over $200,000,000 Per Year, Calls Itself ‘Non-Profit’



September 2022



No Protection for Linux Offered by the So-called 'Linux' Foundation


The Linux Foundation is in No Position to Lecture Us (or Anybody) on Diversity


IBM is Outsourcing Key Parts of GNU to Microsoft Linux Foundation


Linux Foundation 'Europe' a Front Group for Patent Trolls and American Monopolies


After Jim Zemlin Told Us We Should “Respect Microsoft”


Linux Foundation: We Spend Money Buying the Media, Authoring Self-Serving PR by People Who Reject Linux


The Openwashing Festival of 'Linux' Foundation


What is Judenlager Zemlin?


What the Linux Foundation (LF) Truly is: Lobbying Franchise


It's Over 900,000! (Jim Zemlin's Salary Soared to $1.15 Million in 2019)


Linux Foundation: Our Board and Our Directors Are Up for Sale (Highest Corporate Bidder Decides)


Jim Zemlin's Salary More Than Doubled in Just 5 Years (From $500,000 to $1,150,000 in Six Years), Unlike Linus Torvalds'


Linux Foundation Blunders That Media Won't Write About


Linux Foundation Uses Proprietary Software on Proprietary Operating System (Not Linux!) to Lecture People on Adopting 'Open Source'


Linux Foundation's New Cybersecurity Report Made Using Proprietary Software for Microsoft Partners Under the Guise of 'Research'


Meme: Squeezing the Brand (Linux Mark)


The Linux Foundation Has Formally Changed Its Mission! (Based on IRS Files)



August 2022



After Defrauding People in New York Stock Exchange (Now Class Action for Securities Fraud) Jim Zemlin's Wife Quits Bakkt to Dodge Liability


Meme: The Misleadingly Named Foundation


Wikipedia Helps Linux Foundation Spread Lies, Revisionism


Meme: The Linux Foundation's Boss


The Linux Foundation Got Rid of 31 Employees in 2019 (When It Fired All the Editors and All the Contributors of Linux.com Despite Revenue Soaring)


Linux Foundation Has Moved to More Expensive Offices, Based on IRS Papers


The 'Linux' Foundation is Working Against Linux for People Who Reject Linux


Echoes of Narcissism: How Jim Zemlin Views Himself


Linux Foundation Drowning in Grift and 7-Figure Salaries (Awarded to People Who Never Created Anything)


Linux Foundation Revenue Plunges ($18,000,000 Decrease in One Year) and Jim Zemlin’s Wife Has Her Company Sued for Securities Fraud (Class Action)


Jim Zemlin's Wife (at Bakkt) Seems to be Running a Pyramid Scheme or a Scam, Preying on Gullible People


Transcript of Jim Zemlin Talking About His Wife’s (Sheela Microsoft) Reaction to Linux


Sheela Microsoft (Zemlin) Does Not Like Linux and Jim Zemlin Idolises Bill Gates


Spamnil is Still Clickfrauding and the Linux Foundation Supports the Clickfraud


Sheela Zemlin's Company Has Hit All-Time Low, Lost More Than 90% of 'Market Value' in Only Months


Sheela Microsoft (Jim Zemlin’s Wife) Downplayed ‘Volatility’ Just Weeks Before the Cryptocurrencies Pyramid Schemes Collapsed (That’s Her Business at Bakkt!)


Jim Zemlin Giving His Talks on an Apple Mac Again? (July 2022)



July 2022



Turning Linux.com Into a Shrine for Microsoft


Microsoft Bribing Everyone: Canonical, 'Linux' Foundation, OSI... (Those That Should Push Back Against Microsoft Crimes)


Buzzwords and Openwashing From Linux Foundation: It's Not About Linux, Not Even Open Source, Just Corporate Ads Made With Proprietary Software


The Linux Foundation Does Not Understand What Open Source Means


Linux Foundation Annual Open Source Jobs Report is Made Using Proprietary Software on Proprietary Operating System (Not Linux)


Linux Foundation: Don't Say the Word Master, It's Offensive


Linux Foundation Spreads Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) Disguised as ‘Open Source’



June 2022



Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Mouthpiece for Jim Zemlin, Salaried by (or via) ZDNet


This Past Week the Linux Foundation Ran a Massive Misinformation Campaign in Texas and It Paid Media/Publishers to Repeat Lies/Spin


Meme: Linux Foundation is Not About Linux (Anymore)


Words You Cannot Say Unless You Are the Linux Foundation


OSI's Cofounder Bruce Perens: “Linux Foundation is an Infringer's Club.”


Meme: Linux Foundation 'Winning' Arguments by Changing the Subject, Moving Goalposts (Nothing Technical, Shallow Political Stunts)


Linux Foundation for Sharecropping


Focus on the Concepts, Focus on Software Freedom (and Other Freedoms)


Mozilla, Just Like the Linux Foundation, Has Turned to Politics at Firefox’s Expense


New Lows: Linux Foundation Defrauding Clients


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


The Linux Foundation Has Just Released “A Guide to Enterprise Open Source”, Made Using Proprietary Software on Proprietary Operating System



May 2022



The Linux Foundation Has Turned Its Blog (and the Linux.com Web Site) Into Politics


Jim Zemlin's Wife is Funded by Puppies (Microsoft)


Meme: Linux-Rejecting Foundation


Linux Foundation Almost Never Uses Open Source


Jim Zemlin: Chief Revenue Officer in 'Linux' Seat-Selling Foundation


Linux Foundation Does Not Speak for GNU/Linux Users


Reminder: Linux Foundation’s Last IRS Filing is Very Old (Same Year the CFO Left)


Who Brings Home the Bacon (Revenue), Sheela or James (Jim)?


Evolution at Linux Foundation: Microsoft Attacks, Microsoft 'Joins', Microsoft Takes Control



April 2022



Lunduke Touches an Important Set of Issues, But Still Gets Pertinent Details a Little Wrong


‘Linux’ Foundation Promoting Microsoft and Scams While Microsoft Intensifies Its Attacks on Linux (by Proxy and From the Inside)


The Linux Foundation Does Not Want You to See How a ‘Code of Conduct’ is Actually Enforced at Its Events


Linux.com So Poorly Managed by Linux Foundation That Now They're Double-Posting (Same Post Twice, Not Corrected)


Linux Foundation Starts Hiding What Software It Uses to Make Reports (But Readers Can Guess)


Linux Foundation Should Remove Linux From Its Name


Linux Foundation Has a New Lead Editor. Like Jim Zemlin, He Doesn't Use Linux. He's in Love with iPad.



March 2022



Linux Foundation: From Linux to Openwashing Services


An Alliance of Hate and Intolerance


'Linux' Foundation 'Research' ASWF Report Made on an Apple Mac Using Proprietary Software


It's Almost Spring 2022 and Linux Foundation's Latest Available IRS Filing is From 2018, Over 90% of the Budget Goes to US


The 'Studies' of 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' Based on Data From Microsoft and Experts in Adobe, Not 'Open Source'


Latest 'Linux' Foundation Report About 'Open Source' Made on an Apple Mac Using Proprietary Software



February 2022



Rest Assured the Linux Foundation Does Not Really Speak for Linux (Not Anymore)


Linux Foundation Board in 2022: 86% Corporate and 81% Proprietary Software Companies


GNU/Linux Runs Most of the World's Servers and Linux Powers About Half of the World's Client Side While Represented by People Who Neither Use Nor Understand Either of Those


Linux.com Used to Clock Millions of Hits Every Week, But Linux Foundation Can Barely Keep Thousands



December 2021



The Linux Foundation Does Not Truly Care About Diversity and Inclusion, It’s Just Using That


Linux Besieged


Linux.com Has Become Microsoft Spam and Spamnil


Linux Foundation 2021 Annual Report Made on an Apple Mac Using Proprietary Software


No Linux Foundation IRS Disclosures Since 2018


Jim Zemlin Has Deleted All of His Tweets



November 2021



Meme: Jimmy Zemlin Loves Microsoft


Meme: They Send Linus Torvalds to Therapists While Microsoft Pays Their Full Salary


Linux Foundation Has Become Even Worse Than Climate Science Deniers



October 2021



Spamnil is Spamming Linux.com


Linus Torvalds is Not in Charge Anymore, All Important Decisions Are Made by Monopolistic Corporations



September 2021



Meme: ‘Linux’ Foundation is Greenwashing Microsoft Again, Misusing the Linux Brand Like Nobody’s Business


Linux Foundation and Other ‘Diploma Mills’ Say There’s Demand for Their Products in Their New ‘Research’ (Marketing)


The Linux Foundation is Exploiting COVID-19 to Take Away Human Rights and Profit Even More From Surveillance


A Tale of Two COVID-19 Approaches: KDE (Community) Versus Linux Foundation (Large Corporations)



July 2021



Playing With Fire: The Linux Foundation Associates the Linux Brand With Proprietary Software and GitHub (as Usual)


Remember That the ‘Linux’ Foundation is Working Against You (Unless You’re a Monopoly)



June 2021



Time for Linus Torvalds to Enforce and Protect His Brand From Misuse by His Employer, the So-called ‘Linux’ Foundation


“Linux Foundation Partners With Microsoft” Again


There Are Bigger Scandals Than Revisionism and Brand Dilution at the Linux Foundation


Today’s Linux Standing for the Opposite of What Linux Users Stand for


Conveniently Conflating Vaccination With the Surveillance Business of IBM/Linux Foundation


Linux Foundation is a Foundation of Mass Surveillance


The ‘Linux’ Foundation is Against Linux



May 2021



Linux Foundation Has Killed the Linux Brand (in Pursuit of Short-Term Profits)


Linux Foundation as a Farce


The Biggest Troll is the Linux Foundation, Still Looking to Provoke and Defame Free Software Communities in Order to Help a Monopolistic Takeover and to Shoehorn Tyrants Into Leadership Positions



April 2021



How to Kill the Brand “Linux”, Associating It With an Attack on Human Rights


For Hire: People Who Know How to Run a Site (for Employer 'Linux' Foundation)


GNU/Linux Turns 38 This Year, But the (Partly) Microsoft-Led Linux Foundation Wants You to Think It's Only 30 and a Good Friend of Microsoft


Linux Foundation Can’t Use Linux



March 2021



Linux Foundation Should Stop Using Bots for Code of Conduct Enforcement Because Bots Fail the Community


The Corporate Linux Foundation is Now Using the 'Code of Conduct' Aggressively and Excessively to Censor People Using Bots, Not Human Assessment


Fake Security From Linux Foundation and the Monopolies It’s Fronting for


Former Microsoft Employee on Behalf of Linux Foundation: We Present Another ‘Linux’ Report, Made on a Mac With Proprietary Software



February 2021



Misusing the Linux Brand for Reputation Laundering and Openwashing of Racist Companies (Which Profit From Racism)


The Foundation of Shame


Whose ‘Linux’ Foundation is This? Goldman Sachs’ and Facebook’s?



January 2021



Time to Rebrand the Linux Foundation, Which is Clearly a Misnomer Apathetic Towards Linux and Sometimes Hostile Towards What Linux Actually Stands For


OpenForum Europe (IBM et al) and Linux Foundation Are Boosting and Cooperating With Enemies of Software Freedom


The Linux Foundation, With Over 124 Million Dollars in Annual Revenue, is in Trouble Because of the Pandemic, So It's Trying to Reinvent Itself as Training and Certifications Outfit


The Linux Foundation is Trying to Obscure Racism Using Microsoft-Inspired Tactics (Vouchers Disguised as Actual Money)



December 2020



Video: What Has the Linux Foundation Done to Linux.com?


Linux Foundation Does Not Love Linux


Linux Foundation Trolls Its Critics by Forging Metadata in Its Annual Report



November 2020



Linux Foundation Outsources Events and 'LF Live' to Proprietary Software With Back Doors and Surveillance (Zoom)


Let's Encrypt is Garbage, Albeit It's Disguised as 'Free' Privacy


Meme: Linux Foundation and Microsoft/NSA Do Surveillance Together



October 2020



With Microsoft in Charge, OpenSSF Seems More Like It’s About Back Doors — Not Real Security — Inside the Linux Foundation


Linux Foundation (Men for Monopolies) Once Again Hijacking Women's (and Minorities') Voices for Public Relations


What the Linux Foundation Teaches People About GNU/Linux in LinuxFoundationX (edX) LFS101x “Introduction to Linux” (sic)


LinuxFoundationX (edX) LFS101x “Introduction to Linux” is More Linux Foundation Marketing and 'Linux' Revisionism Than Actual Training/Teaching



September 2020



Linux Foundation: “Transformation Through Open Source” is Proprietary Software That Rejects Linux


Post-Coronavirus Linux.com Became Nothing But a SPAM Site


Reminder: Vice Chair of the Linux Foundation's Board is an Oracle Executive Who Used to Work for Microsoft


Meme: Linux Foundation Does Not Represent Linux Users


Corruption in Organisations Like the Linux Foundation and the FSFE


The Linux Foundation Pays News Sites to Plant/Embed Puff Pieces in Them. By Doing That It Associates 'Linux' With the Controversial Attack on Actual Journalism.


Meme: Linux Foundation Board Meeting


Meme: Linux Foundation Employs Linus Torvalds But Outsources Almost Everything to the Proprietary E.E.E. Against Torvalds (Git Founder), Microsoft GitHub


New Video From Derek Taylor: The Linux Foundation Doesn’t Use Linux to Create Reports


Linux Foundation Works for Microsoft



August 2020



The Linux Foundation is Not Even Using Linux to Prepare and Publish the Linux Kernel History Report


“Guy Who Started and Still Maintains Linux” (But Not Managing It Anymore)


If You Don't Understand Why Linux Foundation Board is Less Than 5% Geeks, Then You Don't Understand the Linux Foundation


Meme: The Linux Foundation Views GNU/Linux Users as a Nuisance


Linus Torvalds Explains Copyleft (Which Linux Foundation Increasingly Opposes)


Memes: Linux Foundation is a Bribery and Money-Laundering Operation Disguised as 'Non-Profit'


Warning: Microsoft Tim and Microsoft’s New Mole Inside ‘Linux’ Foundation Board (a Paid-For Seat) Liaise to Outsource Linux Development to Microsoft’s Proprietary Software Trap


The Morally and Financially Corrupt Linux Foundation


The Linux Foundation in 2020 Helps Serial GPL Violators Such as Microsoft Get Away With It


Cray Research Was Founded by Seymour Cray, Not Jim Zemlin’s Grandfather (and No, Zemlin Cannot Really Speak Japanese as He Claims)


Jim Zemlin Gave Himself ~30% Pay Increment in a Couple of Years


Something Very Fishy About the Way the Linux Foundation Puts Its Leadership 'on Sale'


The Linux Foundation Exceeds $100,000,000 in Revenue and Jim Zemlin Now Pays Himself About a Million Dollars a Year While ‘His’ Foundation Operates at a Loss of $732,261



July 2020



Meme: Linux (or Linux Foundation) Rapidly Becoming 'Stalin's Dream'


Even Before Microsoft Paid ('Joined') the Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin Had a Preference for Microsofters


Linux Foundation Still Owned and Controlled Largely — and More Over Time — by Surveillance Companies (Openwashing Services for Bad Practices and Bad Actors)


The Linux Foundation is Not Even Using Linux



June 2020



From Microsoft Corporation to “Editorial Director at the Linux Foundation”


Linux Foundation Newsletter is Microsoft Windows and Proprietary IIS


Linux Foundation Gets Its 'Information' From Microsoft ZDNet


The Linux Foundation Turned Linux.com Into an Advertising Site


Linux Foundation Pretends Security 'Best Practices' is Outsourcing to Microsoft. All 'Gold Badges' (All of Them Except Linux) Go to Projects That Are Microsoft-Controlled at GitHub, With NSA PRISM.


Linux Foundation, With Zero African-American Employees (in a Country Where 13.4% Identify as African-American), Boasts About Its “Support for the Black Community”


Openwashing Report: When It Comes to the Linux Foundation and Open Source Initiative (OSI) You Should be a Pessimist, Not an Optimist


Microsoft is Now in the Technical Advisory Board of the Linux Foundation


The Linux Foundation ‘Bootcamp’ — Badly Timed and Badly Named in June 2020 — Only Uses Linus Torvalds Like a ‘Prop’ (for Legitimacy) While Promoting Militarised Monopolies


What It Would Take for Linus Torvalds to Leave Linux Foundation Without the Linux Trademark and Without Linux



May 2020



Look What the Linux Foundation Has Turned Linus Torvalds Into



April 2020



The Linux Foundation Hates GPL/Copyleft Likes Its Sponsors Do (Microsoft, VMware and Others)


The Linux Foundation Has Helped VMware Lie About Its Deliberate GPL Violations That are Connected to Microsoft, Another Prolific GPL Violator


This Month the Linux Foundation Takes the Mask Off



March 2020



Linux Foundation Became Anti-Linux, Run by Microsoft People to Serve Microsoft's Agenda


Linux.com as Marketing Web Site of Its Sole Editor (After All Genuine Writers and Editors Laid Off)


Linux Foundation Adds Another Microsoft Executive to Its Leadership (Fourth by Count)


Chief Marketing Officer of Linux Foundation Left Earlier This Year to Become Chief Communications Officer for Proprietary Software Vanguard That Exposes Kids' Data to Crackers


Techrights Urges Readers to Ask the Linux Foundation's Let's Encrypt (Backed by Companies That Give the NSA Back Doors) Some Hard But Legitimate Questions


Linux Foundation Issued Millions of Faulty Certificates and Linux Foundation CMO Who Worked for James Clapper Has Left


The Linux Foundation is Sometimes Against Linux and Its Official Blog Posts Come From Microsoft Veterans This Month (Nowadays It's Not Even Shocking)



February 2020



The Linux Foundation is Deeply Committed to Diversity and Inclusiveness (as Long as You Have Perfect Vision and Use 'Big Browsers' That Spy)


Reminder: At Linux Foundation in 2020 Three Board Members, Including the Vice Chair and Director at Large, Are Current or Past Microsoft Employees


Is Linux Foundation a Microsoft Branch Now?



January 2020



Linux Foundation (LF) Now Dominated by Lots of Microsoft People and LF Chiefs Join Microsoft in Smearing GPL/Copyleft


Linux Foundation Failing to Support Big and Important Free Software Projects Which Seek Assistance


The Linux Foundation's Linux Kernel Code of Conduct (CoC) Committee is Now Officially Corporate


Linux Foundation Has Killer Instincts


Celebration of Censorship and Self-Censorship in Linux


Not a Joke: Linux Foundation Web Site Rejects Linux Browsers, Favours Proprietary Software and Spying


The Face of Linux.com


Linux Suggestion for 2020 - Linus Should Grab His Trademark and Abandon the Linux Foundation Like He Did OSDL



December 2019



Like Zemlin, Like Linux.com


Very Fine Advocacy From the Sole Person Whom the Linux Foundation Left in Charge of Linux.com After Firing All Staff That Actually Used GNU/Linux


Linux Foundation Has Outsourced All the Licence Compliance Stuff to Microsoft, a Serial GPL Violator


5 Years Ago the Linux Foundation Turned Linux.com Into a Non-Linux Site


Tone Policing and the Linux Foundation



November 2019



Microsoft Employees Being Put in Charge of Linux


The Linux Foundation Brought as Keynote Speakers People Vastly Worse Than Those Whom It Now 'Cancels' for Purely Political Reasons


Age of Digital Deception: Startpage, Mozilla and the Linux Foundation Are Enemies of Your Privacy



October 2019



Guest Contribution: Linux Foundation spoke of “quid pro quo” in the context of poor children


The Linux Foundation is Deep in the 'Surveillance Capitalism' Industry Now


Somebody Needs to Explain to the Linux Foundation That GNU/Linux (or Software Freedom) is Not a Religion


Linux Foundation Staff: Microsoft Critics Are “Nutcases”


Linux Foundation: Firing All GNU/Linux-Oriented Journalists and Giving Jobs to Microsoft



September 2019



Openwashing and Microsoft Apologists' Club


Time to Rename the Linux Foundation's Linux.com and Maybe Call it Linux.NET


The Corporate Linux Foundation as Agent of Microsoft and Other Serial GPL Violators


Proprietary Software Giants Tell Open Source 'Communities' That Proprietary Software Giants Are 'Friends'


Microsoft Pays the Linux Foundation for Academy Software Foundation, Which the Linux Foundation is Outsourcing to Microsoft


Coverage for Sponsors: What the Linux Foundation Does is Indistinguishable From Marketing Agencies' Functions


Watch Out, Linus Torvalds: Microsoft Bought Tons of Git Repositories and Now It Goes After Linux


Linux Foundation Inc. Buys Press About Itself and Media Coverage for Sponsors


Web Site Called Linux.com Still Exists Only or Mostly to Promote Anti-Linux Firms and Openwashing


What the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin Really Thinks of Desktop/Laptop GNU/Linux


The Sad Truth That Linux Foundation Staff is Against GPL/Copyleft and Sometimes Against Linux (Unless It's Run Under Vista 10)


The Linux Foundation is a Tax-Exempt PR Firm With Glorified Trademark


A Linux Foundation Without Linux-Using Staff


Openwashing Report: The Linux Foundation Champions Openwashing of GPL-Violating VMware


Openwashing Report: The Linux Foundation Champions Openwashing of GPL-Violating (and GPL-Bashing) Microsoft


Openwashing Report: The Linux Foundation Champions Openwashing of IBM



August 2019



The Linux Foundation Has Become More About Microsoft Than About Linux


Linux Foundation Swag, Corrected Edition


Linux Foundation is Against the Community and People Gradually Come to Grips With It


Linux Foundation’s Linux.com in 2019: Zero Articles (Nothing Original) and a Terrible, Rookie New Design


Wrong Person in Charge of the Linux Foundation (and in Charge of Linus Torvalds)


LINUX.COM Managed by Apple’s MacOS Users, Open Source Managed and Covered by People Who Reject Open Source


The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit is a Proprietary Software Marketing Venue


The Zemlins Are Closer to Apple and Microsoft Than to Linux


Linux Foundation Nowadays Resembles Fake Charities That Exist Not to Support What They Claim to Support


Explaining Today's 'Linux' Foundation With a Visual Analogy


How the Linux Foundation Devolved From Community-Centric to Microsoft (in GitHub) Projects


Open Cloud Summit Shows Microsoft and the Linux Foundation Organising Events Together (as Full Partners, in Tandem)



July 2019



Microsoft as Chief Censor of Torvalds' Git and Torvalds' Linux (Foundation): How Did We Get Here?


The Linux Foundation: Openwashing as a Service (OaaS)


The Linux Foundation Has Outsourced Most Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) Projects to Microsoft


People From Half a Dozen Countries May be Banned From Participating in the Linux Foundation Because It's Outsourcing Many Projects to Microsoft/GitHub


The Linux Foundation is Totally Not Aware of Efforts to Undermine GNU/Linux


Linux.com Has Become a Microsoft Promotion Site Under Linux Foundation-Appointed Staff


Don't Kick the Puppy That is Suing Linux Using Patents While Bribing Officials, Threatening Critics and Hijacking the Linux Foundation


Why Does Jim Zemlin Publicly Congratulate Microsoft?


The 'Linux' Foundation is Acting Like a Microsoft ISV Now, Commitment to Linux and FOSS Deteriorates Even Further


Linux Foundation Apparently Celebrates Sysadmin Day With a Microsoft Windows Site!


The 'New' Linux.com Sometimes Feels Like a Microsoft Promotion Site


Allowing Bad Guests to Become the Hosts


Linux is Doing ‘Well’ Only for Those Who Dislike Software Freedom and Love Control Over Users


The Openwashing of VMware, Sponsored by the Linux Foundation (in Turn Sponsored by VMware)



June 2019



The Campaign to Oust Linus Torvalds and Other Microsoft Critics at the 'Linux' Foundation


The Linux Foundation's Staff Uses Windows and Microsoft. Now the Foundation Outsources the Coding and Hosting, Too (to Microsoft of Course).


Bill Gates Said He Was on a “Jihad” Against GNU/Linux, But GNU/Linux Users/Developers Engaged in Self-Defense Are Foul-Mouthed 'Microsoft Haters'?


Microsoft Apparently Did a Patrick Durusau on Wim Coekaerts to Broaden Its Control Over GNU/Linux


The Linux Foundation's New Vice Chair, Wim Coekaerts, Worked for Microsoft


The Linux Foundation's Business Model


Corporate Front Groups Like OIN and the Linux Foundation Need to Combat Software Patents If They Really Care About Linux


The Linux Foundation in 2019: Over 100 Million Dollars in Income, But Cannot Maintain Linux.com?


Microsoft and Proprietary Software Vendors a Financial Boon for the Linux Foundation, But at What Cost?


The Linux Foundation as a Facilitator of Microsoft's Abduction of Developers (for GitHub, Azure, Visual Studio and Windows)


The Linux Foundation Fires All Staff and Editors at Linux.com. Future Uncertain.


Apparent Staffing Problems at the Linux Foundation



May 2019



Linux Foundation and the Big Surveillance Industry, Media Industry, Microsoft Azure



April 2019



Any 'Linux' Foundation Needs to Be Managed by Geeks, Not Politicians and PR People


Code of Coercion


The Linux Foundation Needs to Change Course Before GNU/Linux (as a Free Operating System) is Dead


Freedom is Not a Business and Those Who Make 'Business' by Giving it Away Deserve Naming


Concluding the Linux Foundation (LF) “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 3)


GNU/Linux is Being Eaten Alive by Large Corporations With Their Agenda


Reader's Claim That Rules Similar to the Code of Conduct (CoC) Were 'Imposed' on LibrePlanet and the FSF


A Linux Foundation Run by People Who Reject Linux is Like a Children's Charity Whose Management Dislikes Children


Guest Post: The Linux Foundation (LF) is “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 2)


Guest Post: The Linux Foundation (LF) is “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 1)


Jono Bacon Works for Microsoft


The Linux Foundation is Selling Tweets, Access, ‘Thank Yous’ and SPAM Services


Zemlin PAC: Influence for Sale, Under the Banner of ‘Linux’, at the Cost of a House


Microsoft Linux Entryism: A Roundup



March 2019



What Happened to the Linux Foundation?


Constructive Suggestions for the Linux Foundation


The Linux Foundation is Not About Linux


Guest Post: The Linux Foundation Needs to Define “Support”


Jim Zemlin’s Linux Foundation Still Does Not Care About Linux Desktops


The Linux Foundation Needs to Speak Out Against Microsoft’s Ongoing (Continued) Patent Shakedown of OEMs That Ship Linux


Microsoft ‘Bought’ the LOT Network Like it Did the ‘Linux’ Foundation and It’s Now, as a Result, Yet Another Microsoft PR Front


CommunityBridge is a Cynical Microsoft-Funded Effort to Show Zemlin Works for ‘Community’, Not Microsoft



February 2019



Jim Zemlin’s PAC Keeps Raising Money From Microsoft



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