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What Linux Foundation 'Research' is: Paid Marketing

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 27, 2025

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What is Linux Foundation 'Research'?

Let's find out, based on Linux Foundation 'Research'.

In the Linux Foundation's own words, Linux Foundation 'Research' is sort of like marketing with the "research" label, i.e. same as "Microsoft Research". From the front page:

HTTPS: Linux Foundation
HTTPS image: Sponsor a Study
HTTPS image: Learn more about the opportunities available to sponsor an LF Research project
HTTPS image: Reputational influence through research
HTTPS image: Brand Visibility
HTTPS image: Research Deliverables as Marketing Collateral
HTTPS image: LF Research Marketing Reach
HTTPS image: Sponsored (bribed) by LF for media 'placements'

This does not support journalism; it corrupts news sites. The sites above openly admit they get paid to publish that chaff. So "LF" basically like a SPAM middleman.

HTTPS image: ghostwriter

So you basically pay Zemlin et al to produce spam for you via people like SPAMnil. This is the "service" they offer. Instead of the Web being filled with LLM slop we get a Web that's filled with many fake (paid-for) 'articles'.

Can you too afford?

HTTPS image: Pricing Scale: Survey-Based Research Commissions (custom)
HTTPS image: Pricing Scale: Qualitative Research Commissions (custom)

$75,000 a bare minimum:

HTTPS image: Bespoke Workshops and Roundtables: Starting at USD 75K

$2,500 just to stick in a logo:

HTTPS image: Co-Branding Research

How very kind:

HTTPS image: In-Kind Partnerships

Open Source?

HTTPS image: Not

Also see: The Linux Foundation is Selling Tweets, Access, 'Thank Yous' and SPAM Services █

HTTPS: The Linux Foundation is Selling Tweets, Access, 'Thank Yous' and SPAM Services
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