Linux Foundation
From Techrights
Jim Zemlin (Linux Foundation), Scott Guthrie (Microsoft), and GitHub's co-founder Chris Wanstrath the day Microsoft joined (paid) the Linux Foundation
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
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
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
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