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Summary: The Linux Foundation has just released a whole cluster of pages, statements, and paid-for press releases about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; it says "[t]he Linux kernel community adopted inclusive language in the Linux 5.8 release, showing its commitment to Diversity and Inclusion." But shallow changes such as these distract from the overall picture and inherent immorality of the Linux Foundation, a front group and incubator of monopolies that do terrible things and insist on making proprietary software and DRM, not to mention spying and bombing.

THIS month we wrote a number of important articles about the Linux Foundation. Curiously enough, a PR blitz from the Foundation started immediately after that (maybe the timing was sheer coincidence) and yesterday it culminated in familiar PR strategies some have dubbed "identity politics".

The video above contains my personal views on what the Foundation is doing and why it's doing it. I prefer to limit those thoughts to video as it makes the words harder to take out of context (for lack of nuance, with no body language or microexpressions).

A diversity of corporate interests (a breadth of large corporations) isn't the same as demographic diversity and when many powerful companies prioritise money (even abusive military contracts) rather than human rights we have to ask ourselves who's being served here. ⬆