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In 2019 Techrights undertook the task of investigative inquiry regarding the Linux Foundation, a trade group headed by Jim Zemlin. Below are articles that belong to this series, listed in reverse older of publication. There are also Linux Foundation Archives|much older articles.

September 2023

  • 'Linux' Foundation: Made on Apple Mac With Proprietary Software (As Always)
  • Linux Foundation Newsletter for September 2023 is Out: Linux (Kernel) Hardly Even Mentioned, As Usual
  • Under the Linux Foundation, Which is Controlled by GNU/Linux-Hostile Companies, Linux.com is Just Linux Foundation Marketing Spew and Double-Postings (Dupes, Again, and No Actual Content)
  • Linus Torvalds is Paid 32,502 Dollars a Week, He Said Microsoft Was Too Focused on Money
  • Linux Foundation® (and Linux.com) as Perception Management


    • August 2023

  • How to Buy Your Keynote Speech From the Linux Foundation (the Case of Microsoft)
  • Linux Foundation Fails to Heed the Warning About Microsoft
  • Linux Foundation Leadership Team: Technical Advisory Board Now Google-Microsoft Majority
  • For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Linux.com Posts Duplicates in an Otherwise Mostly Dead Site That Just Links to LF Press Releases (Sales)


    • July 2023



  • Linux.com in 2003 Versus Linux.com in 2023
  • Understanding How the Linux Foundation Really Operates (Looking Beyond the Name and Marketing)
  • Linux Foundation Probably Reads Techrights Closely
  • More Red Flags in Proxima Systems
  • Meme: Love Me Tenderlessly
  • Shedding Light on Proxima Systems, the Linux Foundation's $2.5 Million Contractor
  • Linux Foundation Has Not Left Much of Linux.com Except Marketing Plugs for the Linux Foundation's Customers (Not Even Linux)
  • Linux.com Has Been Outsourced to a Private Company (Linux Foundation (LF) Contractor) and It's Recycling the Domain for Non-Linux Purposes
  • The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part VI: Examples of GNU and Linux Luminaries Targeted by Mobs
  • The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part V: Hit Piece Gone Wrong?
  • The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part IV: Hit Pieces and Public Shaming as Bargaining Cards
  • Meme: A Gross Misallocation of Capital
  • The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part III: Non-Technical People Trying to Ruin the Lives of the Geeks
  • The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part II: People Who Defamed Linus Torvalds Say Torvalds Was “Grateful” for It
  • The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part I: Somebody Wants to be Your 'Buddy'


    • June 2023



  • You Only Had One Job, Linux Foundation Contractor (and You Blew It, for $2,500,000 a Year!)
  • Upcoming New Series: The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry
  • Linux Foundation: Openwashing as a Service, Using Proprietary Software
  • Linux Foundation Openly Disrespectful of Linux and Its Founder
  • Linux Foundation 'Erased' Linux From Linux.com
  • Linux Foundation Has New Report About 'Open'... But It Uses Proprietary Software on Proprietary Platform
  • 'Linux' Foundation Increases Number of Microsoft Employees in the Board of Directors to THREE, the Only Geek in the Board Has Left (or Got Removed)
  • The Name Linux Misused by People Who Never Even Used It
  • The Real Linux Foundation - Part 10: An 'International' Collaboration Organisation (for 'International' Projects) Where 90% of the Money is Spent in the United States
  • The Real Linux Foundation - Part 9: Use of Contractors Soared From 12 to 29 in Just Three Years, Value of Contracts Has Gone Up by a Lot
  • The Real Linux Foundation - Part 8: Example of Outsourcing to Contractors (Likely Without Tender/Bidding)
  • The Real Linux Foundation – Part 7: Giving Large Contracts to Former Staff (Yes, Corruption and Graft)
  • The Real Linux Foundation - Part 6: Raising Money From Monopolies, Living Extravagant Lifestyles, Crushing Software Communities
  • 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)
  • The Real Linux Foundation - Part 4: How the Foundation Makes Its Money
  • The Real Linux Foundation - Part 3: How It Splits Into Subgroups, Including New Ones
  • What the 2022 Tax Filing (From 7 Months Ago, for Tax Year 2021) Teaches Us About the Linux Foundation
  • New Series: Inside the Real Linux Foundation
  • Jim Zemlin Boasting in 2022: Linux Foundation Has Revenue of Over 200 Million Dollars; IRS in 2022: Linux Foundation Has Revenue of 139 Million Dollars
  • 'Linux' Foundation: Spendings on Salaries Increased More Than 20% in One Year
  • Linux Foundation Demotes Mr. Linux, Linus Torvalds, to Third (in Salaries), Only Uses Him for the Name
  • Linux Foundation 'Research' Has a New Report and Of Course It Uses Only Proprietary Software


    • April 2023

  • 'Linux' Foundation Formally Selling SPAM Services in Violation of Terms of Services
  • Linux Foundation is Outsourcing Linux Development and Communications to Surveillance Giants


    • January 2023

  • Report: The So-called 'Linux' Foundation is Reducing Focus on Linux
  • Linux.com Dominated by Microsofters
  • Zemlins Should be Held Accountable Like Sam Bankman-Fried: Bakkt Nearly Penny Stock Now


    • December 2022

  • Linux Foundation: Monopolies Versus Monopolies, Always at the Expense of Communities of Volunteers
  • Meme: Linux Foundation Lecturing Us on Tolerance and Morality
  • The Linux Foundation's Annual Report Was Made on an Apple Mac and Published in Proprietary Web Site


    • November 2022

  • Open Source Initiative (OSI) Adds Mozilla and 'Linux' Foundation to Its Microsoft-Funded Attack on the GPL/Copyleft
  • Jim 'FTX' Zemlin: “My Wife Who is a Successful Technology Executive and Harvard MBA (and Fraudster Facing Class Action Lawsuit for Securities Fraud) Really Had an Obvious Look of Disappointment... When I Told Her I Worked at a Non-Profit” (sic)
  • This Month's 'Linux' Foundation Event (Linux Foundation Member Summit 2022) Sponsored by the Company That Attacks Linux
  • 'Linux' Foundation Became an Instrument of Microsoft and Proprietary Software Openwashing
  • Linux Foundation Dumps Open Source Software, Moves to Proprietary Software, Breaks RSS Feeds, Barely Publishes Anything Anymore


    • October 2022

  • Microsoft's Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP): Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Security, Thanks to 'Linux' Foundation
  • Linux Foundation, Not 'Supply Chain' Nonsense, is Becoming the Biggest Threat to Linux Security and Computing Security (It's Deliberate)
  • 'Linux' Foundation Games Social Control Media Sites to Defraud Clients
  • Jim Zemlin Idolises Microsoft and Bill Gates (in New Talk Published This Week), Applauding a Back Doors Company and Jeffrey Epstein’s Enabler
  • Money Corrupts: The New Stack (TNS) Violates Its Own Policy for 'Linux' Foundation, Repeatedly Publishes Misleading Propaganda Without Any Disclosure
  • Money Talks at 'Linux' Foundation: From 'Open Source Loves Microsoft' to 'Thank You to Our Sponsors, Especially to Our Diamond Sponsor Microsoft'
  • Linux Foundation Events Now 'Run' by Linux's Biggest Foe
  • ‘Linux’ Foundation, While Hoarding Over $200,000,000 Per Year, Calls Itself ‘Non-Profit’


    • September 2022

  • No Protection for Linux Offered by the So-called 'Linux' Foundation
  • The Linux Foundation is in No Position to Lecture Us (or Anybody) on Diversity
  • IBM is Outsourcing Key Parts of GNU to Microsoft Linux Foundation
  • Linux Foundation 'Europe' a Front Group for Patent Trolls and American Monopolies
  • After Jim Zemlin Told Us We Should “Respect Microsoft”
  • Linux Foundation: We Spend Money Buying the Media, Authoring Self-Serving PR by People Who Reject Linux
  • The Openwashing Festival of 'Linux' Foundation
  • What is Judenlager Zemlin?
  • What the Linux Foundation (LF) Truly is: Lobbying Franchise
  • It's Over 900,000! (Jim Zemlin's Salary Soared to $1.15 Million in 2019)
  • Linux Foundation: Our Board and Our Directors Are Up for Sale (Highest Corporate Bidder Decides)
  • Jim Zemlin's Salary More Than Doubled in Just 5 Years (From $500,000 to $1,150,000 in Six Years), Unlike Linus Torvalds'
  • Linux Foundation Blunders That Media Won't Write About
  • Linux Foundation Uses Proprietary Software on Proprietary Operating System (Not Linux!) to Lecture People on Adopting 'Open Source'
  • Linux Foundation's New Cybersecurity Report Made Using Proprietary Software for Microsoft Partners Under the Guise of 'Research'
  • Meme: Squeezing the Brand (Linux Mark)
  • The Linux Foundation Has Formally Changed Its Mission! (Based on IRS Files)


    • August 2022

  • After Defrauding People in New York Stock Exchange (Now Class Action for Securities Fraud) Jim Zemlin's Wife Quits Bakkt to Dodge Liability
  • Meme: The Misleadingly Named Foundation
  • Wikipedia Helps Linux Foundation Spread Lies, Revisionism
  • Meme: The Linux Foundation's Boss
  • The Linux Foundation Got Rid of 31 Employees in 2019 (When It Fired All the Editors and All the Contributors of Linux.com Despite Revenue Soaring)
  • Linux Foundation Has Moved to More Expensive Offices, Based on IRS Papers
  • The 'Linux' Foundation is Working Against Linux for People Who Reject Linux
  • Echoes of Narcissism: How Jim Zemlin Views Himself
  • Linux Foundation Drowning in Grift and 7-Figure Salaries (Awarded to People Who Never Created Anything)
  • Linux Foundation Revenue Plunges ($18,000,000 Decrease in One Year) and Jim Zemlin’s Wife Has Her Company Sued for Securities Fraud (Class Action)
  • Jim Zemlin's Wife (at Bakkt) Seems to be Running a Pyramid Scheme or a Scam, Preying on Gullible People
  • Transcript of Jim Zemlin Talking About His Wife’s (Sheela Microsoft) Reaction to Linux
  • Sheela Microsoft (Zemlin) Does Not Like Linux and Jim Zemlin Idolises Bill Gates
  • Spamnil is Still Clickfrauding and the Linux Foundation Supports the Clickfraud
  • Sheela Zemlin's Company Has Hit All-Time Low, Lost More Than 90% of 'Market Value' in Only Months
  • Sheela Microsoft (Jim Zemlin’s Wife) Downplayed ‘Volatility’ Just Weeks Before the Cryptocurrencies Pyramid Schemes Collapsed (That’s Her Business at Bakkt!)
  • Jim Zemlin Giving His Talks on an Apple Mac Again? (July 2022)


    • July 2022

  • Turning Linux.com Into a Shrine for Microsoft
  • Microsoft Bribing Everyone: Canonical, 'Linux' Foundation, OSI... (Those That Should Push Back Against Microsoft Crimes)
  • Buzzwords and Openwashing From Linux Foundation: It's Not About Linux, Not Even Open Source, Just Corporate Ads Made With Proprietary Software
  • The Linux Foundation Does Not Understand What Open Source Means
  • Linux Foundation Annual Open Source Jobs Report is Made Using Proprietary Software on Proprietary Operating System (Not Linux)
  • Linux Foundation: Don't Say the Word Master, It's Offensive
  • Linux Foundation Spreads Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) Disguised as ‘Open Source’


    • June 2022

  • Steven Vaughan-Nichols: Mouthpiece for Jim Zemlin, Salaried by (or via) ZDNet
  • This Past Week the Linux Foundation Ran a Massive Misinformation Campaign in Texas and It Paid Media/Publishers to Repeat Lies/Spin
  • Meme: Linux Foundation is Not About Linux (Anymore)
  • Words You Cannot Say Unless You Are the Linux Foundation
  • OSI's Cofounder Bruce Perens: “Linux Foundation is an Infringer's Club.”
  • Meme: Linux Foundation 'Winning' Arguments by Changing the Subject, Moving Goalposts (Nothing Technical, Shallow Political Stunts)
  • Linux Foundation for Sharecropping
  • Focus on the Concepts, Focus on Software Freedom (and Other Freedoms)
  • Mozilla, Just Like the Linux Foundation, Has Turned to Politics at Firefox’s Expense
  • New Lows: Linux Foundation Defrauding Clients
  • The Linux Foundation is in No Position to Lecture or Write About Open Source Software (OSS), Which It's Consistently Rejecting
  • The Linux Foundation Has Just Released “A Guide to Enterprise Open Source”, Made Using Proprietary Software on Proprietary Operating System


    • May 2022

  • The Linux Foundation Has Turned Its Blog (and the Linux.com Web Site) Into Politics
  • Jim Zemlin's Wife is Funded by Puppies (Microsoft)
  • Meme: Linux-Rejecting Foundation
  • Linux Foundation Almost Never Uses Open Source
  • Jim Zemlin: Chief Revenue Officer in 'Linux' Seat-Selling Foundation
  • Linux Foundation Does Not Speak for GNU/Linux Users
  • Reminder: Linux Foundation’s Last IRS Filing is Very Old (Same Year the CFO Left)
  • Who Brings Home the Bacon (Revenue), Sheela or James (Jim)?
  • Evolution at Linux Foundation: Microsoft Attacks, Microsoft 'Joins', Microsoft Takes Control


    • April 2022

  • Lunduke Touches an Important Set of Issues, But Still Gets Pertinent Details a Little Wrong
  • ‘Linux’ Foundation Promoting Microsoft and Scams While Microsoft Intensifies Its Attacks on Linux (by Proxy and From the Inside)
  • The Linux Foundation Does Not Want You to See How a ‘Code of Conduct’ is Actually Enforced at Its Events
  • Linux.com So Poorly Managed by Linux Foundation That Now They're Double-Posting (Same Post Twice, Not Corrected)
  • Linux Foundation Starts Hiding What Software It Uses to Make Reports (But Readers Can Guess)
  • Linux Foundation Should Remove Linux From Its Name
  • Linux Foundation Has a New Lead Editor. Like Jim Zemlin, He Doesn't Use Linux. He's in Love with iPad.


    • March 2022

  • Linux Foundation: From Linux to Openwashing Services
  • An Alliance of Hate and Intolerance
  • 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' ASWF Report Made on an Apple Mac Using Proprietary Software
  • It's Almost Spring 2022 and Linux Foundation's Latest Available IRS Filing is From 2018, Over 90% of the Budget Goes to US
  • The 'Studies' of 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' Based on Data From Microsoft and Experts in Adobe, Not 'Open Source'
  • Latest 'Linux' Foundation Report About 'Open Source' Made on an Apple Mac Using Proprietary Software


    • February 2022

  • Rest Assured the Linux Foundation Does Not Really Speak for Linux (Not Anymore)
  • Linux Foundation Board in 2022: 86% Corporate and 81% Proprietary Software Companies
  • GNU/Linux Runs Most of the World's Servers and Linux Powers About Half of the World's Client Side While Represented by People Who Neither Use Nor Understand Either of Those
  • Linux.com Used to Clock Millions of Hits Every Week, But Linux Foundation Can Barely Keep Thousands


    • December 2021

  • The Linux Foundation Does Not Truly Care About Diversity and Inclusion, It’s Just Using That
  • Linux Besieged
  • Linux.com Has Become Microsoft Spam and Spamnil
  • Linux Foundation 2021 Annual Report Made on an Apple Mac Using Proprietary Software
  • No Linux Foundation IRS Disclosures Since 2018
  • Jim Zemlin Has Deleted All of His Tweets


    • November 2021

  • Meme: Jimmy Zemlin Loves Microsoft
  • Meme: They Send Linus Torvalds to Therapists While Microsoft Pays Their Full Salary
  • Linux Foundation Has Become Even Worse Than Climate Science Deniers


    • October 2021

  • Spamnil is Spamming Linux.com
  • Linus Torvalds is Not in Charge Anymore, All Important Decisions Are Made by Monopolistic Corporations


    • September 2021

  • Meme: ‘Linux’ Foundation is Greenwashing Microsoft Again, Misusing the Linux Brand Like Nobody’s Business
  • Linux Foundation and Other ‘Diploma Mills’ Say There’s Demand for Their Products in Their New ‘Research’ (Marketing)
  • The Linux Foundation is Exploiting COVID-19 to Take Away Human Rights and Profit Even More From Surveillance
  • A Tale of Two COVID-19 Approaches: KDE (Community) Versus Linux Foundation (Large Corporations)


    • July 2021

  • Playing With Fire: The Linux Foundation Associates the Linux Brand With Proprietary Software and GitHub (as Usual)
  • Remember That the ‘Linux’ Foundation is Working Against You (Unless You’re a Monopoly)


    • June 2021

  • Time for Linus Torvalds to Enforce and Protect His Brand From Misuse by His Employer, the So-called ‘Linux’ Foundation
  • “Linux Foundation Partners With Microsoft” Again
  • There Are Bigger Scandals Than Revisionism and Brand Dilution at the Linux Foundation
  • Today’s Linux Standing for the Opposite of What Linux Users Stand for
  • Conveniently Conflating Vaccination With the Surveillance Business of IBM/Linux Foundation
  • Linux Foundation is a Foundation of Mass Surveillance
  • The ‘Linux’ Foundation is Against Linux


    • May 2021

  • Linux Foundation Has Killed the Linux Brand (in Pursuit of Short-Term Profits)
  • Linux Foundation as a Farce
  • The Biggest Troll is the Linux Foundation, Still Looking to Provoke and Defame Free Software Communities in Order to Help a Monopolistic Takeover and to Shoehorn Tyrants Into Leadership Positions


    • April 2021

  • How to Kill the Brand “Linux”, Associating It With an Attack on Human Rights
  • For Hire: People Who Know How to Run a Site (for Employer 'Linux' Foundation)
  • GNU/Linux Turns 38 This Year, But the (Partly) Microsoft-Led Linux Foundation Wants You to Think It's Only 30 and a Good Friend of Microsoft
  • Linux Foundation Can’t Use Linux


    • March 2021

  • Linux Foundation Should Stop Using Bots for Code of Conduct Enforcement Because Bots Fail the Community
  • The Corporate Linux Foundation is Now Using the 'Code of Conduct' Aggressively and Excessively to Censor People Using Bots, Not Human Assessment
  • Fake Security From Linux Foundation and the Monopolies It’s Fronting for
  • Former Microsoft Employee on Behalf of Linux Foundation: We Present Another ‘Linux’ Report, Made on a Mac With Proprietary Software


    • February 2021

  • Misusing the Linux Brand for Reputation Laundering and Openwashing of Racist Companies (Which Profit From Racism)
  • The Foundation of Shame
  • Whose ‘Linux’ Foundation is This? Goldman Sachs’ and Facebook’s?


    • January 2021

  • Time to Rebrand the Linux Foundation, Which is Clearly a Misnomer Apathetic Towards Linux and Sometimes Hostile Towards What Linux Actually Stands For
  • OpenForum Europe (IBM et al) and Linux Foundation Are Boosting and Cooperating With Enemies of Software Freedom
  • The Linux Foundation, With Over 124 Million Dollars in Annual Revenue, is in Trouble Because of the Pandemic, So It's Trying to Reinvent Itself as Training and Certifications Outfit
  • The Linux Foundation is Trying to Obscure Racism Using Microsoft-Inspired Tactics (Vouchers Disguised as Actual Money)


    • December 2020

  • Video: What Has the Linux Foundation Done to Linux.com?
  • Linux Foundation Does Not Love Linux
  • Linux Foundation Trolls Its Critics by Forging Metadata in Its Annual Report


    • November 2020

  • Linux Foundation Outsources Events and 'LF Live' to Proprietary Software With Back Doors and Surveillance (Zoom)
  • Let's Encrypt is Garbage, Albeit It's Disguised as 'Free' Privacy
  • Meme: Linux Foundation and Microsoft/NSA Do Surveillance Together


    • October 2020

  • With Microsoft in Charge, OpenSSF Seems More Like It’s About Back Doors — Not Real Security — Inside the Linux Foundation
  • Linux Foundation (Men for Monopolies) Once Again Hijacking Women's (and Minorities') Voices for Public Relations
  • What the Linux Foundation Teaches People About GNU/Linux in LinuxFoundationX (edX) LFS101x “Introduction to Linux” (sic)
  • LinuxFoundationX (edX) LFS101x “Introduction to Linux” is More Linux Foundation Marketing and 'Linux' Revisionism Than Actual Training/Teaching


    • September 2020

  • Linux Foundation: “Transformation Through Open Source” is Proprietary Software That Rejects Linux
  • Post-Coronavirus Linux.com Became Nothing But a SPAM Site
  • Reminder: Vice Chair of the Linux Foundation's Board is an Oracle Executive Who Used to Work for Microsoft
  • Meme: Linux Foundation Does Not Represent Linux Users
  • Corruption in Organisations Like the Linux Foundation and the FSFE
  • The Linux Foundation Pays News Sites to Plant/Embed Puff Pieces in Them. By Doing That It Associates 'Linux' With the Controversial Attack on Actual Journalism.
  • Meme: Linux Foundation Board Meeting
  • Meme: Linux Foundation Employs Linus Torvalds But Outsources Almost Everything to the Proprietary E.E.E. Against Torvalds (Git Founder), Microsoft GitHub
  • New Video From Derek Taylor: The Linux Foundation Doesn’t Use Linux to Create Reports
  • Linux Foundation Works for Microsoft


    • August 2020

  • The Linux Foundation is Not Even Using Linux to Prepare and Publish the Linux Kernel History Report
  • “Guy Who Started and Still Maintains Linux” (But Not Managing It Anymore)
  • If You Don't Understand Why Linux Foundation Board is Less Than 5% Geeks, Then You Don't Understand the Linux Foundation
  • Meme: The Linux Foundation Views GNU/Linux Users as a Nuisance
  • Linus Torvalds Explains Copyleft (Which Linux Foundation Increasingly Opposes)
  • Memes: Linux Foundation is a Bribery and Money-Laundering Operation Disguised as 'Non-Profit'
  • Warning: Microsoft Tim and Microsoft’s New Mole Inside ‘Linux’ Foundation Board (a Paid-For Seat) Liaise to Outsource Linux Development to Microsoft’s Proprietary Software Trap
  • The Morally and Financially Corrupt Linux Foundation
  • The Linux Foundation in 2020 Helps Serial GPL Violators Such as Microsoft Get Away With It
  • Cray Research Was Founded by Seymour Cray, Not Jim Zemlin’s Grandfather (and No, Zemlin Cannot Really Speak Japanese as He Claims)
  • Jim Zemlin Gave Himself ~30% Pay Increment in a Couple of Years
  • Something Very Fishy About the Way the Linux Foundation Puts Its Leadership 'on Sale'
  • The Linux Foundation Exceeds $100,000,000 in Revenue and Jim Zemlin Now Pays Himself About a Million Dollars a Year While ‘His’ Foundation Operates at a Loss of $732,261


    • July 2020

  • Meme: Linux (or Linux Foundation) Rapidly Becoming 'Stalin's Dream'
  • Even Before Microsoft Paid ('Joined') the Linux Foundation Jim Zemlin Had a Preference for Microsofters
  • Linux Foundation Still Owned and Controlled Largely — and More Over Time — by Surveillance Companies (Openwashing Services for Bad Practices and Bad Actors)
  • The Linux Foundation is Not Even Using Linux


    • June 2020

  • From Microsoft Corporation to “Editorial Director at the Linux Foundation”
  • Linux Foundation Newsletter is Microsoft Windows and Proprietary IIS
  • Linux Foundation Gets Its 'Information' From Microsoft ZDNet
  • The Linux Foundation Turned Linux.com Into an Advertising Site
  • Linux Foundation Pretends Security 'Best Practices' is Outsourcing to Microsoft. All 'Gold Badges' (All of Them Except Linux) Go to Projects That Are Microsoft-Controlled at GitHub, With NSA PRISM.
  • Linux Foundation, With Zero African-American Employees (in a Country Where 13.4% Identify as African-American), Boasts About Its “Support for the Black Community”
  • Openwashing Report: When It Comes to the Linux Foundation and Open Source Initiative (OSI) You Should be a Pessimist, Not an Optimist
  • Microsoft is Now in the Technical Advisory Board of the Linux Foundation
  • The Linux Foundation ‘Bootcamp’ — Badly Timed and Badly Named in June 2020 — Only Uses Linus Torvalds Like a ‘Prop’ (for Legitimacy) While Promoting Militarised Monopolies
  • What It Would Take for Linus Torvalds to Leave Linux Foundation Without the Linux Trademark and Without Linux


    • May 2020

  • Look What the Linux Foundation Has Turned Linus Torvalds Into


    • April 2020

  • The Linux Foundation Hates GPL/Copyleft Likes Its Sponsors Do (Microsoft, VMware and Others)
  • The Linux Foundation Has Helped VMware Lie About Its Deliberate GPL Violations That are Connected to Microsoft, Another Prolific GPL Violator
  • This Month the Linux Foundation Takes the Mask Off


    • March 2020

  • Linux Foundation Became Anti-Linux, Run by Microsoft People to Serve Microsoft's Agenda
  • Linux.com as Marketing Web Site of Its Sole Editor (After All Genuine Writers and Editors Laid Off)
  • Linux Foundation Adds Another Microsoft Executive to Its Leadership (Fourth by Count)
  • Chief Marketing Officer of Linux Foundation Left Earlier This Year to Become Chief Communications Officer for Proprietary Software Vanguard That Exposes Kids' Data to Crackers
  • Techrights Urges Readers to Ask the Linux Foundation's Let's Encrypt (Backed by Companies That Give the NSA Back Doors) Some Hard But Legitimate Questions
  • Linux Foundation Issued Millions of Faulty Certificates and Linux Foundation CMO Who Worked for James Clapper Has Left
  • The Linux Foundation is Sometimes Against Linux and Its Official Blog Posts Come From Microsoft Veterans This Month (Nowadays It's Not Even Shocking)


    • February 2020

  • The Linux Foundation is Deeply Committed to Diversity and Inclusiveness (as Long as You Have Perfect Vision and Use 'Big Browsers' That Spy)
  • Reminder: At Linux Foundation in 2020 Three Board Members, Including the Vice Chair and Director at Large, Are Current or Past Microsoft Employees
  • Is Linux Foundation a Microsoft Branch Now?


    • January 2020

  • Linux Foundation (LF) Now Dominated by Lots of Microsoft People and LF Chiefs Join Microsoft in Smearing GPL/Copyleft
  • Linux Foundation Failing to Support Big and Important Free Software Projects Which Seek Assistance
  • The Linux Foundation's Linux Kernel Code of Conduct (CoC) Committee is Now Officially Corporate
  • Linux Foundation Has Killer Instincts
  • Celebration of Censorship and Self-Censorship in Linux
  • Not a Joke: Linux Foundation Web Site Rejects Linux Browsers, Favours Proprietary Software and Spying
  • The Face of Linux.com
  • Linux Suggestion for 2020 - Linus Should Grab His Trademark and Abandon the Linux Foundation Like He Did OSDL


    • December 2019

  • Like Zemlin, Like Linux.com
  • Very Fine Advocacy From the Sole Person Whom the Linux Foundation Left in Charge of Linux.com After Firing All Staff That Actually Used GNU/Linux
  • Linux Foundation Has Outsourced All the Licence Compliance Stuff to Microsoft, a Serial GPL Violator
  • 5 Years Ago the Linux Foundation Turned Linux.com Into a Non-Linux Site
  • Tone Policing and the Linux Foundation


    • November 2019

  • Microsoft Employees Being Put in Charge of Linux
  • The Linux Foundation Brought as Keynote Speakers People Vastly Worse Than Those Whom It Now 'Cancels' for Purely Political Reasons
  • Age of Digital Deception: Startpage, Mozilla and the Linux Foundation Are Enemies of Your Privacy


    • October 2019

  • Guest Contribution: Linux Foundation spoke of “quid pro quo” in the context of poor children
  • The Linux Foundation is Deep in the 'Surveillance Capitalism' Industry Now
  • Somebody Needs to Explain to the Linux Foundation That GNU/Linux (or Software Freedom) is Not a Religion
  • Linux Foundation Staff: Microsoft Critics Are “Nutcases”
  • Linux Foundation: Firing All GNU/Linux-Oriented Journalists and Giving Jobs to Microsoft


    • September 2019

  • Openwashing and Microsoft Apologists' Club
  • Time to Rename the Linux Foundation's Linux.com and Maybe Call it Linux.NET
  • The Corporate Linux Foundation as Agent of Microsoft and Other Serial GPL Violators
  • Proprietary Software Giants Tell Open Source 'Communities' That Proprietary Software Giants Are 'Friends'
  • Microsoft Pays the Linux Foundation for Academy Software Foundation, Which the Linux Foundation is Outsourcing to Microsoft
  • Coverage for Sponsors: What the Linux Foundation Does is Indistinguishable From Marketing Agencies' Functions
  • Watch Out, Linus Torvalds: Microsoft Bought Tons of Git Repositories and Now It Goes After Linux
  • Linux Foundation Inc. Buys Press About Itself and Media Coverage for Sponsors
  • Web Site Called Linux.com Still Exists Only or Mostly to Promote Anti-Linux Firms and Openwashing
  • What the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin Really Thinks of Desktop/Laptop GNU/Linux
  • The Sad Truth That Linux Foundation Staff is Against GPL/Copyleft and Sometimes Against Linux (Unless It's Run Under Vista 10)
  • The Linux Foundation is a Tax-Exempt PR Firm With Glorified Trademark
  • A Linux Foundation Without Linux-Using Staff
  • Openwashing Report: The Linux Foundation Champions Openwashing of GPL-Violating VMware
  • Openwashing Report: The Linux Foundation Champions Openwashing of GPL-Violating (and GPL-Bashing) Microsoft
  • Openwashing Report: The Linux Foundation Champions Openwashing of IBM


    • August 2019

  • The Linux Foundation Has Become More About Microsoft Than About Linux
  • Linux Foundation Swag, Corrected Edition
  • Linux Foundation is Against the Community and People Gradually Come to Grips With It
  • Linux Foundation’s Linux.com in 2019: Zero Articles (Nothing Original) and a Terrible, Rookie New Design
  • Wrong Person in Charge of the Linux Foundation (and in Charge of Linus Torvalds)
  • LINUX.COM Managed by Apple’s MacOS Users, Open Source Managed and Covered by People Who Reject Open Source
  • The Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit is a Proprietary Software Marketing Venue
  • The Zemlins Are Closer to Apple and Microsoft Than to Linux
  • Linux Foundation Nowadays Resembles Fake Charities That Exist Not to Support What They Claim to Support
  • Explaining Today's 'Linux' Foundation With a Visual Analogy
  • How the Linux Foundation Devolved From Community-Centric to Microsoft (in GitHub) Projects
  • Open Cloud Summit Shows Microsoft and the Linux Foundation Organising Events Together (as Full Partners, in Tandem)


    • July 2019

  • Microsoft as Chief Censor of Torvalds' Git and Torvalds' Linux (Foundation): How Did We Get Here?
  • The Linux Foundation: Openwashing as a Service (OaaS)
  • The Linux Foundation Has Outsourced Most Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) Projects to Microsoft
  • People From Half a Dozen Countries May be Banned From Participating in the Linux Foundation Because It's Outsourcing Many Projects to Microsoft/GitHub
  • The Linux Foundation is Totally Not Aware of Efforts to Undermine GNU/Linux
  • Linux.com Has Become a Microsoft Promotion Site Under Linux Foundation-Appointed Staff
  • Don't Kick the Puppy That is Suing Linux Using Patents While Bribing Officials, Threatening Critics and Hijacking the Linux Foundation
  • Why Does Jim Zemlin Publicly Congratulate Microsoft?
  • The 'Linux' Foundation is Acting Like a Microsoft ISV Now, Commitment to Linux and FOSS Deteriorates Even Further
  • Linux Foundation Apparently Celebrates Sysadmin Day With a Microsoft Windows Site!
  • The 'New' Linux.com Sometimes Feels Like a Microsoft Promotion Site
  • Allowing Bad Guests to Become the Hosts
  • Linux is Doing ‘Well’ Only for Those Who Dislike Software Freedom and Love Control Over Users
  • The Openwashing of VMware, Sponsored by the Linux Foundation (in Turn Sponsored by VMware)


    • June 2019

  • The Campaign to Oust Linus Torvalds and Other Microsoft Critics at the 'Linux' Foundation
  • The Linux Foundation's Staff Uses Windows and Microsoft. Now the Foundation Outsources the Coding and Hosting, Too (to Microsoft of Course).
  • Bill Gates Said He Was on a “Jihad” Against GNU/Linux, But GNU/Linux Users/Developers Engaged in Self-Defense Are Foul-Mouthed 'Microsoft Haters'?
  • Microsoft Apparently Did a Patrick Durusau on Wim Coekaerts to Broaden Its Control Over GNU/Linux
  • The Linux Foundation's New Vice Chair, Wim Coekaerts, Worked for Microsoft
  • The Linux Foundation's Business Model
  • Corporate Front Groups Like OIN and the Linux Foundation Need to Combat Software Patents If They Really Care About Linux
  • The Linux Foundation in 2019: Over 100 Million Dollars in Income, But Cannot Maintain Linux.com?
  • Microsoft and Proprietary Software Vendors a Financial Boon for the Linux Foundation, But at What Cost?
  • The Linux Foundation as a Facilitator of Microsoft's Abduction of Developers (for GitHub, Azure, Visual Studio and Windows)
  • The Linux Foundation Fires All Staff and Editors at Linux.com. Future Uncertain.
  • Apparent Staffing Problems at the Linux Foundation


    • May 2019

  • Linux Foundation and the Big Surveillance Industry, Media Industry, Microsoft Azure


    • April 2019

  • Any 'Linux' Foundation Needs to Be Managed by Geeks, Not Politicians and PR People
  • Code of Coercion
  • The Linux Foundation Needs to Change Course Before GNU/Linux (as a Free Operating System) is Dead
  • Freedom is Not a Business and Those Who Make 'Business' by Giving it Away Deserve Naming
  • Concluding the Linux Foundation (LF) “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 3)
  • GNU/Linux is Being Eaten Alive by Large Corporations With Their Agenda
  • Reader's Claim That Rules Similar to the Code of Conduct (CoC) Were 'Imposed' on LibrePlanet and the FSF
  • A Linux Foundation Run by People Who Reject Linux is Like a Children's Charity Whose Management Dislikes Children
  • Guest Post: The Linux Foundation (LF) is “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 2)
  • Guest Post: The Linux Foundation (LF) is “Putting the CON in Conference!” (Part 1)
  • Jono Bacon Works for Microsoft
  • The Linux Foundation is Selling Tweets, Access, ‘Thank Yous’ and SPAM Services
  • Zemlin PAC: Influence for Sale, Under the Banner of ‘Linux’, at the Cost of a House
  • Microsoft Linux Entryism: A Roundup


    • March 2019

  • What Happened to the Linux Foundation?
  • Constructive Suggestions for the Linux Foundation
  • The Linux Foundation is Not About Linux
  • Guest Post: The Linux Foundation Needs to Define “Support”
  • Jim Zemlin’s Linux Foundation Still Does Not Care About Linux Desktops
  • The Linux Foundation Needs to Speak Out Against Microsoft’s Ongoing (Continued) Patent Shakedown of OEMs That Ship Linux
  • Microsoft ‘Bought’ the LOT Network Like it Did the ‘Linux’ Foundation and It’s Now, as a Result, Yet Another Microsoft PR Front
  • CommunityBridge is a Cynical Microsoft-Funded Effort to Show Zemlin Works for ‘Community’, Not Microsoft


    • February 2019

  • Jim Zemlin’s PAC Keeps Raising Money From Microsoft


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