The CNCF is pretty distinct from organizations like Debian or The Linux Foundation, and even Debian comes under the same sort of fire I'm about to lay down here

The CNCF is pretty distinct from organizations like Debian or The Linux Foundation, and even Debian comes under the same sort of fire I'm about to lay down here. At this time, I think it's more skepticism than the understanding of what the problem is, but it boils down to corporate influence and what level of influence companies are allowed to have on projects. Companies have several methods of influence: - Financial contributions (and the projects nature of dependence) - Developer interest and representation (eg: when a mega-corp installs a developer and combines that with things like funding) - Board representation A quick anecdotal example was the whole kerfuffle about Google using it's influence to insert kustomize into kubectl. [0] Big organizations like Debian or the CNCF are attractively large targets for the above concerns. [0] https://goteleport.com/blog/kubernetes-kustomize-kep-kerfuffle/ https://goteleport.com/blog/kubernetes-kustomize-kep-kerfuff...