Linux Foundation 2021 Annual Report Made on an Apple Mac Using Proprietary Software
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2021-12-07 00:31:36 UTC
- Modified: 2021-12-07 16:56:52 UTC
Mr. Corbet from the
Linux Foundation is shilling this Linux Foundation PR/marketing in LWN, which isn't
supposed to promote such
openwashing nonsense
Summary: Yes, you're reading this correctly. They still reject both "Linux" and "Open Source" (no dogfooding). This annual report is badly compressed; each page of the PDF is, on average, almost a megabyte in size (58.8 MB for a report of this scale is unreasonable and discriminates against people in countries with slow Internet connections); notice how they're milking the brand in the first page (straight after the cover page, the 1991 'creation myth', ignoring GNU); remember that this foundation is named after a trademark which is not even its own!
Update: Ryan notes that the report "mentions Microsoft 11 times." Example:
"We have also expanded our open source horizons with industry partners, such as Microsoft and Accenture. Together, we’ve launched several new projects and foundations that are meaningful to humanity."
Update #2: Today there are similar responses to ours, e.g.:
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Once again they are facing some criticism for the Linux Foundation's annual report being made on macOS using Adobe software products. They've done that in the past and in public settings pre-pandemic it hasn't been uncommon to find Linux Foundation directors and other stakeholders running Apple MacBook products with macOS.
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After last year's blunder with trying to hide the Adobe toolchain and using hilarious stock photos, the Linux Foundation did much better in their 2021 annual report published Dec. 6, 2021.
