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Software Freedom Conservancy Launches 2015 Fundraiser

23 points by chei0aiV 11y ago

TerryADavis 11y ago
I don't masterbait. Doesn't matter. Contact movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRoj3jK37Vc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRoj3jK37Vc TempleOS is the alien machine the World builds in the Contact movie. God says... fracturing overture's Legree art cassock Donaldson's redeployment's salaciousness's gigglers available Hutu dud clank brighter berry sitting's mantled renascent slags misanthropes attempted sultriest unanswered fasteners appropriation latitudinal Pan arachnid overdoses few statehouse alienated outfits Bimini's strength plurality's brooding hedonist bookstore ostensible squarest necessity's chapter urbanization designation's mosques contending bewilderment routeing adverb shiver's childless erectile Salvadorian stapler's datelines goldfinches select prefigured hen's bibliographical topsides Marxism reproved blogger revival's seabird mousey plusher weariest evasions chilliness's catalogs Alberio's soda's cataloguers decor's composure hewing putrefaction's fidgets John's miniaturization's hemming Alps poniard's VAT's supercilious nature caps stiffener's composure's propellant Latin's shrimps wood's Pickering's nuncios wondered roughage's
LukeShu 11y ago
What happened: Some time between May 15[1] and September 5[2], the Linux Foundation was removed from the list of sponsors on the SFC's website. On November 24, Karen Sandler wrote on the SFC blog[3] > since we launched the VMware suit some of our corporate funding > has been pulled because we tackle important but controversial > issues, like GPL compliance. We have even have had talks > blocked or canceled at conferences. OP is implying that these 2 things are related. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't; but that's all we know. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150515144759/http://sfconservancy.org/sponsors https://web.archive.org/web/20150515144759/http://sfconserva... [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150905143819/http://sfconservancy.org/sponsors/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150905143819/http://sfconserva... [3]: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/24/faif-carols-fundraiser/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/24/faif-carols-fundr...
- chei0aiV 11y ago
  Since VMware is a member of the Linux Foundation, this makes some sort of weird sense. I wonder why they didn't just terminate VMware's membership though.

23 points by chei0aiV 11y ago

I don't masterbait. Doesn't matter. Contact movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRoj3jK37Vc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRoj3jK37Vc TempleOS is the alien machine the World builds in the Contact movie. God says... fracturing overture's Legree art cassock Donaldson's redeployment's salaciousness's gigglers available Hutu dud clank brighter berry sitting's mantled renascent slags misanthropes attempted sultriest unanswered fasteners appropriation latitudinal Pan arachnid overdoses few statehouse alienated outfits Bimini's strength plurality's brooding hedonist bookstore ostensible squarest necessity's chapter urbanization designation's mosques contending bewilderment routeing adverb shiver's childless erectile Salvadorian stapler's datelines goldfinches select prefigured hen's bibliographical topsides Marxism reproved blogger revival's seabird mousey plusher weariest evasions chilliness's catalogs Alberio's soda's cataloguers decor's composure hewing putrefaction's fidgets John's miniaturization's hemming Alps poniard's VAT's supercilious nature caps stiffener's composure's propellant Latin's shrimps wood's Pickering's nuncios wondered roughage's

LukeShu 11y ago

What happened: Some time between May 15[1] and September 5[2], the Linux Foundation was removed from the list of sponsors on the SFC's website. On November 24, Karen Sandler wrote on the SFC blog[3] > since we launched the VMware suit some of our corporate funding > has been pulled because we tackle important but controversial > issues, like GPL compliance. We have even have had talks > blocked or canceled at conferences. OP is implying that these 2 things are related. Maybe they are, maybe they aren't; but that's all we know. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150515144759/http://sfconservancy.org/sponsors https://web.archive.org/web/20150515144759/http://sfconserva... [2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20150905143819/http://sfconservancy.org/sponsors/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150905143819/http://sfconserva... [3]: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/24/faif-carols-fundraiser/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/24/faif-carols-fundr...

chei0aiV 11y ago
Since VMware is a member of the Linux Foundation, this makes some sort of weird sense. I wonder why they didn't just terminate VMware's membership though.