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Summary: Vicious monopolies, including Microsoft, are crushing the GNU/Linux communities and even people who aren't affiliated with these monopolies (because they're generally harder for these monopolies to control)

THE video above (unscripted and unedited, as usual) covers today's very short post about the Linux Foundation. We'll have a lot more on the subject next month.

"Code developed by volunteers is becoming "asset" or "IP" of corporations."The video discusses what's to come, why we are doing it, and then shows the wiki change, etc. "The [previous] article did not mention that there used to be valuable and informative articles on the linux.com site," an associate said today. "It's important to document the move from being pro-FOSS to being anti-FOSS and anti-Linux in particular" (at linux.com).

The video discusses more than just linux.com; what we're generally seeing is a corporate takeover, communities being repelled (consider what IBM has just done^*), and project founders being defamed if not ousted too. Power is being taken away from people and passed to corporations. Code developed by volunteers is becoming "asset" or "IP" of corporations. ⬆ ____ ^* Jeff Geerling put it like this 4 hours ago:

Red Hat posted an official response. In it, they wrote:

"Simply rebuilding code, without adding value or changing it in any way, represents a real threat to open source companies everywhere."

Paraphrasing: those who use open source code and don't contribute back are "a real threat to open source companies everywhere"

I call these people: users.

I fight for the users.

Or the community. Red Hat too has historically been opportunistic if not parasitic, so there's plenty of hypocrisy in the above statement.