From: jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > From :   
      
   > A.k.a. “bait and switch”.   
      
   Quote from the article.   
   >But on balance yes – Open source foundations considered helpful.   
      
   and I will finish it:   
     "... to the companies who own the foundation."   
      
   The Linux Foundation is owned by large corporations, which   
   is listed at the end of the article.   
      
   The LF now exists to only help Large Companies, its purpose   
   is to provide free labor to those companies.   
      
   For an example, look at OpenSSH, every company uses it, yet   
   IBM for one does not donate to it.  Instead, IBM happily   
   bundles OpenSSH with AIX and RHEL.  There are plenty of   
   examples of projects were the authors are struggling to   
   meet their expenses.  The LF is no where in sight for them,   
   instead most of their donations go to admin type people   
   and now to some AI spin-off.  Hardly any goes into Linux.   
      
   If the LF cared for the users of Linux, they would force   
   Companies like Nvidia to open-up their firmware, preventing   
   Linux from using Nvidia GPUs like they do with ZFS.   
      
   Instead, Nvidia being a nice big contributor, can do what   
   they want.  Thus preventing its full use on many system   
   that contain their GPU.   
      
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