Series parts:

1. New Series: Inside the Real Linux Foundation
2. What the 2022 Tax Filing (From 7 Months Ago, for Tax Year 2021) Teaches Us About the Linux Foundation
3. The Real Linux Foundation - Part 3: How It Splits Into Subgroups, Including New Ones
4. The Real Linux Foundation - Part 4: How the Foundation Makes Its Money
5. 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)
6. YOU ARE HERE ☞ Raising Money From Monopolies, Living Extravagant Lifestyles, Crushing Software Communities

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Summary: A Linux Foundation "millionaires club" (people who never touched GNU/Linux but made millions in salaries from the Linux Foundation) is a growing problem and a liability for the GNU/Linux community; today we meticulously take a look and scrutinise more closely how money gets spent in the San Francisco Bay Area, under the overtly misleading guise of "Linux"

THE Linux Foundation (LF) is a morbid institution which attempts to recreate or emulate the success of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), except a lot more poorly and recklessly, raising funds from some of the fiercest enemies of its core or its original values. ASF has already been hijacked by Microsoft -- at several levels in fact (Microsoft is good at entryism) -- and LF snapped Mr. Apache to run a bunch of different things for about half a million dollars a year. "It is important to define the LF," an associate has noted today. "It is not a trade group to advance Linux in industry and government. It is a trade group to advance the members' interests within the kernel. A lot of fools and wishful thinkers wrongly assume it is the former and the harsh reality is the latter." See The Linux Foundation Has Formally Changed Its Mission, as published last year.

"LF has managed to steal or privatise decades' worth of volunteers' work, putting them under the wing of monopolistic corporations, with a Code of Conduct slapped on top so that criticising corporate crimes becomes a punishable 'offence'."But it's not greed that makes LF so harmful and dangerous. As we've already shown in this series, the LF tends to promote the wrong people while demoting credible people. No wonder so many LF managers have tragically died (we've lost count already). People who adore and admire the LF are typically not geeks but unprincipled businesspeople, i.e. people who mastered the art of exploiting geeks for great personal gain. In the video above I offer as an example the person who plundered myself and my colleagues, committing a crime, then hiding in the US (like Jim Zemlin's wife [1, 2, 3). LF has managed to steal or privatise decades' worth of volunteers' work, putting them under the wing of monopolistic corporations, with a Code of Conduct slapped on top so that criticising corporate crimes becomes a punishable 'offence'^*. In the next part we shall look some more at the last IRS filing and expose the true nature of 'the beast'. ⬆ _______ ^* If you criticise an evil company or point out that someone works for an evil company, that can wrongly be interpreted as a "personal attack".