The Linux Foundation (Fronting for Microsoft and Bill Gates, Not Linux) Makes Cyberspace Less Secure
Security is not the goal
Earlier this month: Free Software Licence Compliance is About Security Too
THE Linux Foundation, which only devotes about 2% of its budget to Linux, is basically a GPL "infringer's club.”
It's hardly surprising it's dominated by and fronting for prolific GPL violators such as Microsoft.
The problem is that these practices aren't just illegal; they're also collectively harmful, i.e. they harm society at large. We all pay for it. Consider this botnet problem and this other new report. "Botnets are being built as the result of stolen code (i.e. Linux) not being properly maintained etc," an associate explained (we covered this subject earlier this month). "The companies are strip-mining FOSS rather than participating in it and the completely predictable result is a growing wave of security disasters with a great many small breaches adding up to a large problem."
"Worse," the associate opined, "it allows distraction from the *really* big problems like Microsoft products and services cause."
The Linux Foundation is run by frauds and charlatans on the run. It must not be mistaken for an authority or an organisation that pursues real security. Heck, it offloaded security to proponents of back doors in everything. Its latest podcast on security puts Microsoft on a pedestal, as did Jim Zemlin, who fronts for opponents of privacy.
The Linux Foundation ought to rename itself as the "GPL Infringers' Foundation" or something to that effect. All it does - and profits from - is openwashing PR services, sometimes outsourcing to Microsoft's GitHub (proprietary spyware). Do not be misled by names like 'Linux' Foundation; less than 1% of the people who develop Linux are paid by the Foundation. But it's there to expel people whom it does not even employ. █