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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 .

September 2023

=> 'Linux' Foundation: Made on Apple Mac With Proprietary Software (As Always)

=> Linux Foundation Newsletter for September 2023 is Out: Linux (Kernel) Hardly Even Mentioned, As Usual

=> Under the Linux Foundation, Which is Controlled by GNU/Linux-Hostile Companies, Linux.com is Just Linux Foundation Marketing Spew and Double-Postings (Dupes, Again, and No Actual Content)

=> Linus Torvalds is Paid 32,502 Dollars a Week, He Said Microsoft Was Too Focused on Money

=> Linux Foundation® (and Linux.com) as Perception Management

August 2023

=> How to Buy Your Keynote Speech From the Linux Foundation (the Case of Microsoft)

=> Linux Foundation Fails to Heed the Warning About Microsoft

=> Linux Foundation Leadership Team: Technical Advisory Board Now Google-Microsoft Majority

=> For the Second Time in a Few Weeks Linux.com Posts Duplicates in an Otherwise Mostly Dead Site That Just Links to LF Press Releases (Sales)

July 2023

=> Linux.com in 2003 Versus Linux.com in 2023

=> Understanding How the Linux Foundation Really Operates (Looking Beyond the Name and Marketing)

=> Linux Foundation Probably Reads Techrights Closely

=> More Red Flags in Proxima Systems

=> Meme: Love Me Tenderlessly

=> Shedding Light on Proxima Systems, the Linux Foundation's $2.5 Million Contractor

=> Linux Foundation Has Not Left Much of Linux.com Except Marketing Plugs for the Linux Foundation's Customers (Not Even Linux)

=> Linux.com Has Been Outsourced to a Private Company (Linux Foundation (LF) Contractor) and It's Recycling the Domain for Non-Linux Purposes

=> The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part VI: Examples of GNU and Linux Luminaries Targeted by Mobs

=> The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part V: Hit Piece Gone Wrong?

=> The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part IV: Hit Pieces and Public Shaming as Bargaining Cards

=> Meme: A Gross Misallocation of Capital

=> The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part III: Non-Technical People Trying to Ruin the Lives of the Geeks

=> The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part II: People Who Defamed Linus Torvalds Say Torvalds Was “Grateful” for It

=> The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part I: Somebody Wants to be Your 'Buddy'

June 2023

=> You Only Had One Job, Linux Foundation Contractor (and You Blew It, for $2,500,000 a Year!)

=> Upcoming New Series: The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry

=> Linux Foundation: Openwashing as a Service, Using Proprietary Software

=> Linux Foundation Openly Disrespectful of Linux and Its Founder

=> Linux Foundation 'Erased' Linux From Linux.com

=> Linux Foundation Has New Report About 'Open'... But It Uses Proprietary Software on Proprietary Platform

=> 'Linux' Foundation Increases Number of Microsoft Employees in the Board of Directors to THREE, the Only Geek in the Board Has Left (or Got Removed)

=> The Name Linux Misused by People Who Never Even Used It

=> The Real Linux Foundation - Part 10: An 'International' Collaboration Organisation (for 'International' Projects) Where 90% of the Money is Spent in the United States

=> The Real Linux Foundation - Part 9: Use of Contractors Soared From 12 to 29 in Just Three Years, Value of Contracts Has Gone Up by a Lot

=> The Real Linux Foundation - Part 8: Example of Outsourcing to Contractors (Likely Without Tender/Bidding)

=> The Real Linux Foundation – Part 7: Giving Large Contracts to Former Staff (Yes, Corruption and Graft)

=> The Real Linux Foundation - Part 6: Raising Money From Monopolies, Living Extravagant Lifestyles, Crushing Software Communities

=> The Real Linux Foundation - Part 5: The Annual Cost of the Office Has Jumped to Almost 8 Million Dollars for Just 261 Employees (About $30,000 Per Employee Per Year)

=> The Real Linux Foundation - Part 4: How the Foundation Makes Its Money

=> The Real Linux Foundation - Part 3: How It Splits Into Subgroups, Including New Ones

=> What the 2022 Tax Filing (From 7 Months Ago, for Tax Year 2021) Teaches Us About the Linux Foundation

=> New Series: Inside the Real Linux Foundation

=> Jim Zemlin Boasting in 2022: Linux Foundation Has Revenue of Over 200 Million Dollars; IRS in 2022: Linux Foundation Has Revenue of 139 Million Dollars

=> 'Linux' Foundation: Spendings on Salaries Increased More Than 20% in One Year

=> Linux Foundation Demotes Mr. Linux, Linus Torvalds, to Third (in Salaries), Only Uses Him for the Name

=> 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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