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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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Post by Snild »

teo_zero wrote: post #32

To be fair, you should say that over 97% of the Linux Foundation's budget goes not to the Linux kernel . There's more to Linux than the kernel.

Don't let Stallman hear you say that!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy

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

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Post by cromka »

jmclnx wrote: post #15

Well this is in line with the fact the LF has been quiet about these new Age Verification laws. The LF should be very vocal about how these laws will hurt Linux. It is almost seems like the LF wants these laws :(

They aren't going to hurt Linux at all. Desktop Linux is of little importance still.

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

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Post by tdeck »

wolttam wrote: post #17

8 million (~3%) towards the Linux kernel 180 million (~65%) towards ancillary project support, which includes a huge ecosystem of useful technologies around linux Their 'corporate operations' overhead is like 5% of expenses. whoop.

Is there a description of the other projects that fall under that heading? I was curious but didn't see it skimming through the document.

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

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Post by sudo_cowsay »

sysreq_ wrote: 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…

is it investments or just donating/funding for no compensation?

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

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Post by potamic »

blackjack_ wrote: post #12
tdeck wrote: post #2

The executive compensation is pretty shocking https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...

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.

A wealth tax than caps one's inflow to something like a million a year makes a lot of sense. To all the billionaire sympathizers who worry about incentives and technological progress, this here is a perfect (and not the only) example of how intrinsic motivation can beat extrinsic motivation by a huge margin.

There will always be people who value intrinsic incentives and even more so when there is a lack or limitation of extrinsic ones. Society will do well to structure itself primarily around such people. Such people are also less likely to cause damage to others because it's very rare that damage to others fulfills one's intrinsic needs. Linus is arguably a net positive to human society than the top 20 billionaires combined. We need more of him and less of the others.

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