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The Real Linux Foundation - Part 10: An 'International' Collaboration Organisation (for 'International' Projects) Where 90% of the Money is Spent in the United States

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. The Real Linux Foundation - Part 6: Raising Money From Monopolies, Living Extravagant Lifestyles, Crushing Software Communities
  7. former staff
  8. no-bid contracts
  9. dubious contractors
  10. YOU ARE HERE ☞ An ‘International’ Collaboration Organisation (for ‘International’ Projects) Where 90% of the Money is Spent in the United States


The spendings of Linux Foundation by country

Summary: The Linux Foundation is not an international body by any stretch of imagination; it devotes only 0.375% of its annual budgets to Central and South American countries while almost all of its money is spent in the US, increasingly via dubious contractors (probably no-bid contracts for friends, former staff etc.)

THE Linux Foundation (LF) is not what it seems or what it may sound like. The name is highly misleading. Consider its latest announcements; notice they have nothing to do with Linux. As of 7 months ago the LF describes itself as follows (the lack of spaces, which has been an issue for several years already, is their issue): "THE LINUX FOUNDATION SUPPORTS THE CREATION OF SUSTAINABLE OPEN SOURCE ECOSYSTEMS BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL RESOURCES, INFRASTRUCTURE, EVENTS, TRAINING, AND SUPPORTING PROGRAMS TO PROGRESS OPEN INNOVATION. WORKING TOGETHER WITH ITS MEMBERS AND COMMUNITIES OFOPEN [sic] SOURCE ENGINEERS, THE LINUX FOUNDATION AND ITS PROJECTS FORM THEMOST [sic] AMBITIOUS AND SUCCESSFUL INVESTMENT IN THE CREATION OF SHAREDTECHNOLOGY." [sic]

"Central and South America, the majority of the 1.002 billion (as of 2016) people in the Americas, get just half a million from those piles of cash."Maybe one day they will even fix the typos by adding the missing spaces (after about half a decade of typos in the FRONT PAGE of IRS Form 990; this typo-fest started in 2019 and hasn't been corrected since then).

Either way, as the screenshot above shows (page 4 of Schedule D (Form 990)), hardly any of the money of the LF reaches places outside the US. Asia and Australia get less than $4,000,000, Europe gets about $5,000,000, and Canada about $4,000,000. The rest are negligible and the sum total is $14,149,186, i.e. about 10% of contributions and grants ($139,476,668). How very... 'international'. Central and South America, the majority of the 1.002 billion (as of 2016) people in the Americas, get just half a million from those piles of cash. $375,921 + $147,345 = $523,266. That's 0.375163823099% of $139,476,668.

The LF's "Latin America" event is controlled by Microsoft. Let that sink in.

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