This is actually eye-opening. One problem I have is: the sponsors of LF basically own Linux and control it? Linus doesn’t have any of his own personal opinions on top of that?
If that’s really true, then what is even the point of having a ‘Linux Foundation’? Because I’m like 99% sure Linux as a whole won’t ever have a lack of sponsors.
Probably a bit of both, Torvalds is clearly no Stallman, in good and bad ways. People have a way to justify things to themselves that happen to benefit them … Linux would be a very different project if it didn’t have that US tech corp money.
Organizations like the LF are also useful for coordinating the interests of the various stakeholders, regardless of what one thinks of whether these interests are worthwhile.
This is actually eye-opening. One problem I have is: the sponsors of LF basically own Linux and control it? Linus doesn’t have any of his own personal opinions on top of that?
If that’s really true, then what is even the point of having a ‘Linux Foundation’? Because I’m like 99% sure Linux as a whole won’t ever have a lack of sponsors.
If not corruption, why corruption-shaped?
Probably a bit of both, Torvalds is clearly no Stallman, in good and bad ways. People have a way to justify things to themselves that happen to benefit them … Linux would be a very different project if it didn’t have that US tech corp money.
Organizations like the LF are also useful for coordinating the interests of the various stakeholders, regardless of what one thinks of whether these interests are worthwhile.