09.14.22
Gemini version available ♊︎The Openwashing Festival of ‘Linux’ Foundation
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Openwashing Foundation in Linux Clothing
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Summary: The brand “Linux” is being ruined by people who misuse it to promote stuff that’s inherently incompatible or antithetical to Linux
THE video above concerns dozens of puff pieces tied to press releases from the Linux Foundation, starting this past Monday and still going on. It’s a paid-for PR charade, it is not journalism.
I’ve chosen to explain what’s happening using Geminispace, where Tux machines is nowadays running and is being developed (Git log). There are about a couple dozen puff pieces and not a single person wrote an article from a critical/sceptical perspective. The openwashing of proprietary software and surveillance companies is itself bad enough; that the puff pieces moreover portray outsourcing to Microsoft GitHub (proprietary) as becoming vendor-neutral or “opening” is truly a tragedy. That’s also an attack on Git, not just on the Linux brand.
“At the moment Jim Zemlin and his cohorts, who don’t even use Linux themselves, are wiping the floor with “Linux”, reducing Linux to a shitty brand that means nothing at all.”Linus Torvalds would be wise to protect his brand from devaluation or dilution. At the moment Jim Zemlin and his cohorts, who don’t even use Linux themselves, are wiping the floor with “Linux”, reducing Linux to a shitty brand that means nothing at all. This is why more and more people start speaking of Free software instead of Open Source. It’s also why many geeks have started dabbling in BSDs. █
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