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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)

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. YOU ARE HERE ☞ The Annual Cost of the Office Has Jumped to Almost 8 Million Dollars for Just 261 Employees (About $30,000 Per Employee Per Year)


Summary: A couple of years ago the Linux Foundation paid almost 6 million dollars a year for an overpriced office space (vanity; no practical advantage) following a relocation to one of the world's most expensive places; the figure has since then jumped by nearly 2 million dollars

THE Linux Foundation is wasting a lot of money on its delusions of grandeur. The career-climbing, money-grabbing management, which does not even use GNU/Linux, is trying to look very important. Self-aggrandising behaviour comes at a cost however:

Linux Foundation office cost

How much of this money could instead be used to support developers of independent GNU/Linux distros? Even if you pay each one of them just 50,000 dollars a year (a lot of money in a place like Poland or India), that's about 150 of them! Instead of some useless office in central San Francisco.

The sad truth is that the Foundation and even the "LINUX KERNEL ORGANIZATION" (see last couple of parts to understand what that is) does not care about GNU/Linux but about its sponsors, i.e. Microsoft, IBM etc.

Below are photos of the office of the 'non-profit' that borrows a trademark still controlled not by itself but by Linus Torvalds (through the "Mark"). Exploitative behaviour begets arrogance.

Market Str. LF

Market Str. LF towers

Market Str. LF towers

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