Linux Foundation

From Techrights

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 much older articles.

Contents 1 June 2023 2 April 2023 3 January 2023 4 December 2022 5 November 2022 6 October 2022 7 September 2022 8 August 2022 9 July 2022 10 June 2022 11 May 2022 12 April 2022 13 March 2022 14 February 2022 15 December 2021 16 November 2021 17 October 2021 18 September 2021 19 July 2021 20 June 2021 21 May 2021 22 April 2021 23 March 2021 24 February 2021 25 January 2021 26 December 2020 27 November 2020 28 October 2020 29 September 2020 30 August 2020 31 July 2020 32 June 2020 33 May 2020 34 April 2020 35 March 2020 36 February 2020 37 January 2020 38 December 2019 39 November 2019 40 October 2019 41 September 2019 42 August 2019 43 July 2019 44 June 2019 45 May 2019 46 April 2019 47 March 2019 48 February 2019 49 Older

June 2023

• 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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