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A Linux Foundation Without Linux-Using Staff

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Linux Foundation is sucking the life out of Linux



Summary: The Linux Foundation is sucking the life out of Linux, for a profit...

THE Linux Foundation is not dedicated to Linux any more than its pertinent members, which are mostly proprietary giants...



In that regard, Foundation members might be absolutely fine with that. They already dominate the Board.

"Linux is a powerful brand and if this misuse of this brand continues, its value will diminish."The seniors at the Foundation think that Linux sucks, e.g. on laptops/desktops! They only use its name (trademark) for their openwashing services...

Linux is a powerful brand and if this misuse of this brand continues, its value will diminish. Its image will wane. What does "Linux" even mean when Microsoft calls its own, Vista 10, "Linux" (or WSL).

Yesterday we learned, based on a new "tweet", that the sole editor of a Web site called Linux.com uses Xbox and Microsoft's Vista 10. Running a Web site called Linux.com while using Windows is like running a Web site called EcoWatch while promoting tobacco (true story by the way!).

"Yesterday we learned, based on a new "tweet", that the sole editor of a Web site called Linux.com uses Xbox and Microsoft's Vista 10."The person's name isn't what's important*; let's just say that yesterday he wrote about Microsoft's 'gift' to Linux ("exFAT Is Coming to Linux"). exFAT has nothing to do with or in Linux; it's about lousy copycats with bugs, not Microsoft's proprietary and secret implementation of it; it's not a working implementation but some inferior ("horrible," according to Linux developers) code. Same as happened with OOXML, which Microsoft itself never bother implementing.

To the people of the Linux Foundation Linux is, at best, a 'side dish'. So they won't care as long as Microsoft, a big sponsor, is pleased. Microsoft is at the top of the list of the Foundation's sponsors, as absurd as that is.

"To the people of the Linux Foundation Linux is, at best, a 'side dish'."Is this a problem?

It certainly is.

Embrace. Extend. Extinguish? Maybe. Not before Microsoft owns (or controls) Linux, which it tried to destroy many times (but always failed). According to this morning's article from Phoronix about a Clear Linux survey: "By far the most used development tool was Visual Studio Code at 37.6%! That was quite surprising to see the Microsoft IDE coming out well ahead of Qt Creator at 8% and others like Intellij, Eclipse, Android Studio, GNOME Builder, and others. "

Phoronix has a misleading headline; it cites a survey of just a couple hundred people choosing to use a lousy distro from a back doors giant; that's what Clear Linux is (it's not representative of GNU/Linux as a whole). So they obviously don't care about Software Freedom. Earlier this week Linux.com actually promoted some rubbish about Visual Studio Code, together with proprietary software (SQL Server). ___ * The name is Swapnil Bhartiya, but he doesn't want his name mentioned. I didn't respond to Swapnil after many abusive tweets he had sent me (maybe 8 in a row ignored by me). Now he blocks me in Twitter, where I ignore him anyway. Pathetic. Just like Jim Zemlin did. I'm not sure what Zemlin expected when he put Windows/Microsoft fans in charge of a site called Linux.com. Critics of it? BLOCKED. Just like Zemlin did. I'm also blocked by him. Not open for criticism/critics. Trying to hide from them instead.

Linux.com is run by a person who -- going by his very own bio -- currently works as a "science fiction writer." Yes, lies are a form of fiction. Like openwashing proprietary software...

Like the notorious Laura DiDio with her fictional writings about houses 'haunted' by 'ghosts' (she actually meant that). She wrote fake stuff whilst attacking Linux through the Yankee Group.

At the Linux Foundation people's past/background is mostly omitted; There's no sign of eduction or formal training in technology. Jim Zemlin told Swapnil upfront in this public interview: "I have a very weak technical background."

People with no grasp of technology and no suitable background (e.g. education in technology) dominate the Linux Foundation, where a tiny portion of the total budget goes to actual techies. The Linux Foundation being run by people with no background in technology isn't an innocent 'anomaly'. That's like a car salesman who never drove a car and does not have a car.

Well anyway, Linux.com is a misleading domain name because it’s no longer about Linux and usually it’s not about Open Source, either. Here's an example from yesterday. Does Swapnil know that both companies are 100% proprietary software and nothing to do with GNU/Linux (he probably doesn’t; and doesn’t care)? This morning he promoted a Windows-only laptop.

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