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● 06.20.23
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●● ‘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)
Posted in GNU/Linux, Kernel, Microsoft at 3:56 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
This shown-below ‘page’ — like their Web site in general — also stopped being a Web page; it’s a JavaScript “app” now, instead (they don’t care about accessibility or disabled people, but they say “DEI” a lot):
Image: Microsoft increasingly controlling Linux Foundation
Summary: The Linux Foundation is
gradually becoming a shadow of
____* The Foundation “is not just a mess but an actively harmful activity,” an associate note, “apparently by Zemlin's design” (his wife is professionally connected to Microsoft and nobody talks about this glaring conflict of interest and even elaborate fraud [1, 2, 3])
** This could of course be a coincidence rather than a moral shield.
*** An associate wanted to moreover “point out that LF [the Foundation] has become an organisation that represents its members’ interests within the kernel rather than actually promoting and advancing Linux in the world.” A few years ago the OSI’s cofounder Bruce Perens, who was also the second Debian Project Leader (the first one, the founder of Debian, was the LF’s first CTO), said that the “Linux Foundation is an infringer's club.” (Alluding to the GPL)
Judging by the companies shown above, the LF is GPL-hostile (it has not chosen this licence for any project for ages) and it ought to be clear that it had become a GPL infringers’ club due to companies that wanted copyleft to die (but could not change the licence of Linux, only pressure Linus Torvalds to reject GPLv3 after a campaign of lobbying). “Many of the board members represent Microsoft partners,” the associate adds, “so the damage from Microsoft is more than just the three moles.”
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