Linux Foundation Increasingly Reliant on Paid Press Releases, Paid-for Stenography, and Even LLM Slop (Fake 'Articles')
THE Linux Foundation is not about Linux. Despite its name, it only devotes about 2% of its budget to Linux and the most influential company in it is the Linux Nemesis, Microsoft. The 'Linux' Foundation has gotten so bad that it habitually (casually if not routinely) promotes the rivals or counterparts of Linux.
Yesterday we saw a lot of very shallow 'coverage' (parroting and press releases) from and for the 'Linux' Foundation. Backed by GAFAM and Opera (proprietary), the 'Linux' Foundation is promoting proprietary Chrome and similar browsers, which contribute to the Chrom* monoculture. No wonder Google is backing this! Like it backed Rust, which it had funded. The 'Linux' Foundation is just acting as a lobbying front for GAFAM's private desires.
What has the 'Linux' Foundation become? Who does it serve? What is its mission? Whose mission? Follow the money...
Also see the bottom part (my update) about the LLM slop in this page as it links to articles we published this morning [1, 2] and mentions the culprits, notably Beta'News' and ZDNet's stenography by Steven Vaughan-Nichols. "Fake articles (LLM slop and LF ['Linux' Foundation]-funded puff piece by SJVN)," I've called it. "Openwashing efforts by LF with its paid media."
This LLM slop is a big problem both for Linux and for Google. Consider this latest 'article' by the serial slopper:
Notice the date.
It says "including Linux." But who wrote this? Microsoft chatbot? Seems so.
The Web is a mess. It's controlled by GAFAM and by serial infringers. They call it "AI", we should call it plagiarism and misuse. When ordinary people do the same they label it "piracy". █