Bonum Certa Men Certa

Who is the Mystery Payer of Sandlers' (Software Freedom Conservancy) Quarter Million Dollars (Huge Salary) Per Year?

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 23, 2023,
updated Nov 23, 2023

Recent: Software Freedom Conservancy is Selling Verbal Thank-Yous So That Its Chief Can Earn a Quarter Million Dollars Per Year, Tax-Free

Now:

Software Freedom Conservancy: Marketing and partial list

Donate today to fund Sandler's $250,000 per annum salary and $500/hour motions to gag Professor Eben Moglen (with help from real lawyers, who later do blog posts that further demonise Professor Moglen).

THE previous post noted that Wikipedia became a giant power broker, just like a traditional American politician. The Software Freedom Conservancy has traditionally swum near where the Big Money was... and that even included several payments from Microsoft!

For affluent people and large corporations that amass trillions of dollars in personal and corporate capital each year, or hoarding almost all the money basically, paying a few million dollars per year to Wikipedia is "money well spent" or a "worthy transaction" as this accompanies bias, censorship, and veiled leverage over editorial decisions at a high level. Hey Jimmy/Jimbo, you didn't even found Wikipedia, you co-founded it. The other co-founder is openly critical this year. He's unhappy about what Wikipedia became! Many others are noticing the deterioration of Wikipedia, especially in areas of politics, corporations, and self-styled "philanthropists" (who are unquestionably "generous", even to Wikipedia itself).

Organisations like the OSI and the Linux Foundation operate the same way. It's Openwashing-as-a-Service (OaaS) basically. Yes, optics. They're corrupt. They're morally bankrupt, but they swim in money from many sales (sellouts).

The Software Freedom Conservancy has just named some people (matching donors) while admitting it's just a partial list and these people get some advertising (shameless self-promotion) for their money. Remember that the Software Freedom Conservancy literally sells verbal thank-you to large corporations while using its imposter organisation to libel the founders/creators of the GPL! Way to spit into the well you drank from...

If Microsoft is among the matchers, would you donate? For each 10 dollars you give the Software Freedom Conservancy, that's another 10 dollars in bribes from Microsoft to the Software Freedom Conservancy. Nice, eh?

For all we know, Gates Foundation could be among those matchers and we would not even know (or let alone be aware of the relative match ratio).

Could Microsoft's CEO (Nadella) be among the matchers as an individual? Some solid evidence would be needed for our ongoing series "since Nadella has mostly be accounted for since the early 1990s," one reader said. "He did work for Sun before he turned fully bad. Though the signs were there early on as he did seek an MBA from Chicago..." (see Cory Doctorow's "How the Chicago School's extremist ideology destroyed the American economy with unchecked monopolies")

Anyway, what the Software Freedom Conservancy is doing right now isn't a "bargain" for donors. They ask for more money and one can imagine where this money will go. Put another way, Mr. SFC and Mrs. SFC ask for more money to attack the founders of Free software, with corporate entities doubling the funds allotted/designated/available to the task.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Datamation, Where I Used to Publish Articles, Appears to Have Been Sold to TechnologyAdvice Only to Become a Slopfarm
I'd prefer to not associate with that site anymore
 
TikTok is Not Harmless (Being CheeTok in the US Will Advance Orange Agenda)
Social control media isn't "fun and games"; it's a digital weapon that lets hostile groups or nations infiltrate others, then turn them against themselves
Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Explain What "Modern" Tech Does to Old People
Imposing terrible tech "religion" on people is not helping them
Tomorrow the Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 and Its Web Site is Still Slow Due to DDoS by LLM Slop Bots
For an advocacy group, uptime is important (for its message to remain accessible)
Slopwatch: Google News as a Firehose of LLM Slop About "Linux"
Google News is really bad
Links 03/10/2025: "NPR’s Economics Lessons Come With Neoliberal Spin" and Canada Post at Risk
Links for the day
Gemini Links 03/10/2025: Panic Attacks and Food Adulteration
Links for the day
Links 03/10/2025: Lawyers Caught Using LLM Slop Explain Why They Did It, LibreSSL 4.1.1 and 4.0.1 Released
Links for the day
FSF Board Grew 50% Since Last Year, Has New President, Turns 40 in Two Days
It's a good move for the FSF and - by extension - for software freedom
Links 03/10/2025: Conflicts, Death of TypePad, and TikTok/CheeTok Gives a Boost to Far Right Groups in Europe
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 02, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, October 02, 2025
Slopwatch: Linux Journal, Google News, and LinuxSecurity
They carry on polluting the Web with fake articles
Gemini Links 02/10/2025: Kubernetes With FreeBSD and robots.txt
Links for the day
Links 02/10/2025: 'Open' 'AI' Resorting to Gimmicks and Fake Funding, Europe’s ‘Drone Wall’ Discussed
Links for the day
Links 02/10/2025: Brave Passes 100M Users Milestone, Kodak Selling Its Own Film Again
Links for the day
Michael “Monty” Widenius: It Started in 1983 With Richard Stallman (RMS)
The other co-founder of MySQL is a bit notorious for confronting RMS rather viciously
For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Microsoft Lunduke Makes False Accusations Against Senior Red Hat Staff to Incite a Despicable 'Troll Army'
Nothing that Microsoft Lunduke claims of says can be trusted
su lisa && rm -rf /home/ibm/power
Novell was ruined by another person from IBM, Ronald Hovsepian
A Record Demand at Microsoft: Demand to Cancel
What we're witnessing is a very ungraceful destruction of XBox
Microsoft is Losing Europe
Hence all the "support" and "discount" offers that are limited to Europe
The Free Software Foundation Starts Fund-raising for 40th Anniversary
New pop-up 2-3 days ahead of the 40th anniversary event
Systemd Breaks Networking in Debian and Microsoft Staff Rushes to Make Face-Saving Excuses in LWN
Microsoft's bluca is already there in the comments, his Microsoft money pays for LWN to let him leave comments early
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 01, 2025
IRC logs for Wednesday, October 01, 2025
What the End of XBox Will Look Like: a Fiery Crash
XBox is the next Skype. It won't last much longer. Expect many more layoffs.
Richard Stallman is Going to Finland to Give a Talk Next Thursday
A day later he speaks in Sweden
Gemini Links 02/10/2025: SMTP Pipelining and End of ROOPHLOCH 2025
Links for the day
Slopwatch: Plagiarism, Fake Articles, and FUD About Linux
not a day goes by without Google News feeding FUD from slopfarms
Gemini Links 01/10/2025: Chat Control and End of Life
Links for the day
Links 01/10/2025: Long Covid Risk Reiterated, "Bitcoin Queen" Caught
Links for the day
Links 01/10/2025: EA $55 Billion Deal is Debt and Slop "Raises Vishing Risks"
Links for the day
Bluewashing at Red Hat Means Redundancies
The man who sold Red Hat to IBM meanwhile became a Microsoft Mono booster
After Killing OpenSource.com, IBM ('Red Hat') and OSI Told Us OpenSource.net Would Replace It (But That Didn't Happen)
Now it's time to move on, perhaps tarnishing the "Open Source" label some more (for whatever sponsor wants this)
Linux is Not a Community Project, It's a Wall Street Product
The core goal should be freedom
Bad Actors Abusing the Free Software Community, Vandalising It Using Rogue Politics and Old Tactics
Oil giants have long attempted to do this; now, the digital equivalent of Big Oil does this in technology
Social Control Media Isn't the Future, The Federation or Fediverse Isn't Growing, People's Accounts Vanish for Good
users' accounts will get deleted, not just become inactive
IBM is Failing, This Helps Show Wall Street is Entirely Detached From Actual Commercial Performance
IBM is unable to grow, it's just constantly shrinking
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
IRC logs for Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Clerical Aspects of Publishing and Development
In Free software, the management aspects are considerably reduced
Slopwatch: Fake Articles and Google News Promoting "Linux" Spam or Bot-Generated Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD)
These slopfarms help misplace blame
Third Wave of Microsoft Layoffs in September, This Time Many in Liverpool Affected
Be ready for more waves of layoffs ahead of the so-called "results" in late October