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Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

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Re: Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

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it does fit the trend... [0] https://www.epi.org/chart/ceopay2019-figure-a-ceo-realized-d...

Not to belabor the point, but LF is a 501(c)(6), not a 501(c)(3). They don't behave like your intuition for a public-interest nonprofit because they aren't one. You shouldn't give them your money!

Why not?

Re: Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to belabor the point, but LF is a 501(c)(6), not a 501(c)(3). They don't behave like your intuition for a public-interest nonprofit because they aren't one. You shouldn't give them your money!

Why not?

It's an industry trade association, for the benefit of its members. You aren't one of its members. (I'd suggest spending 60 seconds researching the difference between a 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) on wikipedia or whatever.)

Re: Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

#24
Reading through the list of projects that the Linux Foundation supports (via infrastructure, governance, events, etc) with the other 181 million is honestly shocking. They are supporting, among like a thousand others - NodeJS/OpenJS, PyTorch, Electron, K8s, vLLM, ONNX, PX4, GraphQL - plus the 'smaller' entries like Zephyr, Containerd, gRPC, KiCAD, ESLint, Fastify, etc. Their portfolio is literally insane. This is the BlackRock of the entire digital world.

Re: Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

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Actually crazy that Linus just takes home 1.5M per year for one of the largest contributions to tech of anyone in the world. Obviously nobody needs more than that per year, but this pay is 1/100 or 1/1000th of many tech executives that have contributed very little comparatively.

That's the difference between giving your work away for free or not. 100x.

Or maybe the difference between doing work, and controlling humans by convincing them that what they're doing is "work".

Re: Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

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I have some experience with the CNCF and oh boy is it a huge powergrab with excuse of inclusivity, wokeness and all the stuff that comes with it. Rarely seen so many self serving people that are in it for themselves as in the CNCF. Yes, downvote away.

I agree that LF and CNCF have serious conceptual problems but I think finances and executive comp are the least of them. This article is attacking the wrong part.

Re: Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

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post #24

Reading through the list of projects that the Linux Foundation supports (via infrastructure, governance, events, etc) with the other 181 million is honestly shocking. They are supporting, among like a thousand others - NodeJS/OpenJS, PyTorch, Electron, K8s, vLLM, ONNX, PX4, GraphQL - plus the 'smaller' entries like Zephyr, Containerd, gRPC, KiCAD, ESLint, Fastify, etc. Their portfolio is literally insane. This is the…

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Re: Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to belabor the point, but LF is a 501(c)(6), not a 501(c)(3). They don't behave like your intuition for a public-interest nonprofit because they aren't one. You shouldn't give them your money!

Why not?

They get their money from corporate sponsors, because those sponsors benefit greatly from the existence of the Linux ecosystem.

They don't need the contributions of individuals to keep going forever and ever.

Re: Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

#29
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually crazy that Linus just takes home 1.5M per year for one of the largest contributions to tech of anyone in the world. Obviously nobody needs more than that per year, but this pay is 1/100 or 1/1000th of many tech executives that have contributed very little comparatively.

That's the difference between giving your work away for free or not. 100x.

1st place: $1 million with my work running on billions of devices

A Very Distant 2nd place: $100 million and a beautifully framed picture of my masterpiece, The Conjoined Triangles of Success

Re: Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux

#30
post #26

I have some experience with the CNCF and oh boy is it a huge powergrab with excuse of inclusivity, wokeness and all the stuff that comes with it. Rarely seen so many self serving people that are in it for themselves as in the CNCF. Yes, downvote away.

I agree that LF and CNCF have serious conceptual problems but I think finances and executive comp are the least of them. This article is attacking the wrong part.

Yup. The CNCF is a power grab, not a huge money grab. All those people make money other places.
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