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Summary: The Linux Foundation, which has long been run by proprietary software companies, is herding coders and their code into the arms of Microsoft's proprietary software (such as GitHub), so isn't it weird that the Foundation claims to be the authority on the subject of "OSS"?

THE Linux Foundation has released a report about "OSS" using only proprietary software, but that's not the worst part. As I show in the video above, the Foundation promotes a misleading, revisionist history. It moreover promotes proprietary corporations' interests, including surveillance and openwashing thereof.

"As I show in the video above, the Foundation promotes a misleading, revisionist history. It moreover promotes proprietary corporations' interests, including surveillance and openwashing thereof."The main conclusion is that the Linux [sic] Foundation has the potential to actually be about Linux and about "OSS"; but it's not there. The problem or the rot starts at the top management, not just evasive Jim Zemlin and the Board. The funding structure of the Foundation likely attracted the wrath of the IRS already^* and it means that the Foundation is beholden to anti-Linux and anti-"OSS" interests. All they want is openwashing and the occasional greenwashing. ⬆ ______ ^* It is June 2022 already, i.e. almost late 2022. The last of the Linux Foundation's IRS filings online go no further than: "Tax Year 2018 Form 990O" (don't let political stunts distract from that)