Linux Foundation: We've Shut Down the Mailing Lists and Fired Everyone at Linux.com So We Can Spend Money Buying Puff Pieces and Paying Clickfraud/Spammers
THE Linux Foundation (LF) is deeply rogue. All the money seems to go to charlatans, family members, scams, and paid-for "media". The Linux Foundation's latest in CW, for example, seems to be more of the same puff pieces [1] and some blurb about "LInux [sic] community", composed by longtime Microsoft boosters [2]. Looking at their Web site, this is coordinated and it illuminates an ethical deficit. Based on the "LF" brochures, this is their business model [1, 2] and Bill Gates is nowadays a major client of theirs. They're openwashing and whitewashing. That's what they do. They occasionally outsource code to Microsoft and gut communities. In a sense, they're a force of occupation, besieging volunteers and working against their role under the guise of corporations as an authority in "manners" (CoC). █
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A software sextuplet for KubeCon Americas 2024 [Ed: LF-sponsored puff piece?]
KubeCon and Cloud Native Con Americas 2024 runs this month with the usual fanfare and (some would say fight) for share of voice over and above the central messages emanating from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) itself.
With this year’s event held in Utah’s exceedingly pleasant capital, Salt Lake City will play host to so many partner practitioner protagonists that it only makes sense to cover off some of the more vocal players now with a six-pack selection as we have done before.
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Linux enters the cold war
The news that the Linux Foundation has removed Russian software developers from the Linux kernel maintainers mailing list is something that is sending shockwaves through the LInux community.
While the on-going war in Ukraine and growing geopolitical tension, particularly the US, UK and European sanctions against “countries of interest” has impacted technology firms, the open source community has largely been buffered from their effects.