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The Real Linux Foundation - Part 8: Example of Outsourcing to Contractors (Likely Without Tender/Bidding)

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. 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)
  6. The Real Linux Foundation - Part 6: Raising Money From Monopolies, Living Extravagant Lifestyles, Crushing Software Communities
  7. The Real Linux Foundation - Part 7: Giving Large Contracts to Former Staff (Yes, Corruption and Graft)
  8. YOU ARE HERE ☞ Example of Outsourcing to Contractors (Likely Without Tender/Bidding)


Summary: The Linux Foundation fancies giving contracts to entities outside the Foundation; they don't seem to be doing much except bagging that money

THE Linux Foundation (LF) is outsourcing. The latest-available IRS filing lists under "Independent Contractors" about $10,000,000 worth of contracts (over a million dollars each). Top of the list:

Proxima payment

Yes, that's Proxima. As per their own site:

Proxima staff

Over 2.5 million dollars for a company so small?

What do they do anyway?

Let's examine the very latest "items" (not original! Just links!) in Linux.com:

Proxima in LF

Notice who posted all of these items (the domain and what it says in the brackets):

Proxima puff piece 1

Proxima puff piece 2

Proxima puff piece 3

So what does the LF's staff do all day? Even the accounting got oursourced. It seems like these people are busy partying with the money.

'Linux' Foundation 'Europe', for instance, pays some dude that nobody ever heard of before more than $600,000 a year to show his face in 'Linux' Foundation-funded puff pieces, pretending that 'Linux' Foundation isn't just some instrument of US global domination (more than 90% of the LF's money is spent inside the US, as we showed before).

So what are they doing all day long? For almost 5 years already "Linux" Foundation has had a BROKEN SPACE BAR, as it cannot type its description properly (it's still the same half a dozen errors in 2022 as it was years ago).

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