Linux Foundation

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Techrights wiki index for Linux Foundation

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