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● 06.27.20

●● From Microsoft Corporation to “Editorial Director at the Linux Foundation”

Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Kernel, Microsoft at 6:41 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

The Foundation is being infiltrated (some might say “infested”) by people who oppose software freedom

Summary: It’s getting more and more difficult over time to perceive the ‘Linux’ Foundation as spokesperson for Linux

Jason Perlow from IBM and then Microsoft is now “Editorial Director at the Linux Foundation” (according to this new blog post). That’s control over communication/messaging. The ‘Linux’ Foundation is quite likely defunct, especially when one takes into consideration Perlow’s track record at ZDNet. We wrote about the matter roughly — or primarily — a decade ago in (do by all means take note of the fact he also tried to ‘cancel’ Stallman back then):

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Groklaw Groks Mono, Miguel de Icaza, Microsoft, and MoreMore Microsoft Employees as ZDNet ‘Writers’, Microsoft Bribes Bloggers for AstroTurfingRichard Stallman is Not the Bad GuyZDNet Embeds Placements for Anti-Free Software CompaniesMicrosoft’s ‘Full Assault’ on Android, Java, and GNU/Linux, Using Classic E.E.E. Tactics AgainMono, Open Core, and Other Bizarre Forms of Open SourceLinux Foundation Became Anti-Linux, Run by Microsoft People to Serve Microsoft’s Agenda

With people like these in charge of the Linux Foundation (which uses Windows) Linus Torvalds must reassess the legitimacy of his employer. The Foundation was supposed to ensure he does not receive his salary from only one single company; but now that he receives his salary from many Linux-hostile companies (Microsoft included) and is being bossed by Microsoft executives how better off is he, really? The Corporate ‘Linux’ Foundation is what some people call it, but why not drop “Linux” and call it what it has really become: The Corporate Foundation, powered by Microsoft’s GitHub. █

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