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Linux Foundation Should Remove Linux From Its Name

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Summary: Linus Torvalds seems to have gotten himself entrapped inside an organisation ("Linux Foundation"; Linux only in name) that harms Linux and even harms Git, the other famous project or Mr. Torvalds; in order to qualify for a job at the "Linux Foundation" you need to neither know nor use Linux -- an absurd situation; Mr. Torvalds should take his trademark and walk away because it keeps getting worse and his employer gets more secretive/shady

THE forces of proprietary software, or people who disagree with Software Freedom and even "Open Source" (they just want openwashing slants for PR gain), are making progress. They've infiltrated sites, institutions, events and so on. We've provided very extensive evidence of this; there's an ample body of evidence, so let's not get bogged down by that.



"This is a very profound issue and the damage extends way beyond the Linux Foundation itself, as the above video explains."So yesterday we saw an announcement of interest. There's a new "social control media" shill for "content". It seems to be one of those SEO types, who mistake JavaScript frameworks for "the Web". There was a similar post in the Linux Foundation's site last night (European time), which also included an image. The image may or may not be the person in question (maybe decades-old photo; but more likely stock photography). We mentioned it at the time.

Is this the future of "Linux"? Some "content farming"? Microsoft GitHub?

What we're generally seeing is that the Linux Foundation is departing from Linux; it's arguably trying to hurt Linux and its spokespeople come from Microsoft. New hires have no experience with (or basic understanding of) Linux. Those who do understand and promote GNU/Linux get ousted and fired. This is a very profound issue and the damage extends way beyond the Linux Foundation itself, as the above video explains.

I cover a number of other points in the video. For instance, Linux.com is barely read by anybody (nothing of interest anymore) and it gives people a rather poor impression of "Linux". There's no Varnish cache or CDN like Clownflare to blame for the appallingly low (very poor) number of page views. It's like they've lost more than 95% of the traffic!

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