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Linux Foundation Has Found a New Business: Pyramid Schemes

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 09, 2025,

updated Dec 09, 2025

2020: 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

2022: Sheela Zemlin's Company Has Hit All-Time Low, Lost More Than 90% of 'Market Value' in Only Months

2024: Jim Zemlin Says Linux Foundation Should Combat Fraud Together With the Gates Foundation. Maybe They Should Start With Jim's Wife.

Right now: (all parties involved are paid by the person the story is about)

Pyramid schemes are the only thing that such a charlatan or this unqualified loser can push these days, just like his wife. He should never have been put in charge (in the first place).

Linus Torvalds should have known better.

In the above case, disturbingly enough, Zemlin pays both the Web site and the author to write nice things about himself. And to make matters worse, he does not pay them personally, he misuses the budget of the Linux Foundation to do this. So this also demonstrates the "rot" (or corruption) of media. We saw similar practices in the EPO and European media.