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Linux Foundation

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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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