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This is outrage porn trying to push an anti-diversity, anti-inclusion agenda. The Linux Foundation supports literally thousands of open source projects that are

This is outrage porn trying to push an anti-diversity, anti-inclusion agenda. The Linux Foundation supports literally thousands of open source projects that are not the Linux Kernel, most notably Kubernetes. This is in the report that the blog post author linked but willfully didn't bother to read. The actual report (PDF): https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021_LF_Annual_Report_120721c.pdf https://www.linuxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021_LF_A...

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eadmund 5y ago
That anyone finds terms like 'whitespace,' 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' problematic is an outrage. They are not racist, they have nothing to do with race (look up their histories!) and a charity should not spend even a single penny of its donors' money on trying to forbid their use. Folks should be outraged at this misuse of their donations.
- dimitar 5y ago
  The donors to LF, or at least where the money comes from are big tech corporations like Microsoft who likely insisted on inclusive language.
- cgriswald 5y ago
  > Folks should be outraged at this misuse of their donations. This is tantamount to telling other people how to spend their own money.
- dang 5y ago
  Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. This one is particularly repetitive and predictable. Not what HN is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - eadmund 5y ago
    Should I have simply flagged bradleybuda's original comment instead? I did that first, then thought that a substantive comment was better (edit: and unflagged it).
norswap 5y ago
Ah yes, Google Kubernetes. That's where money should go.
p_l 5y ago
A quick skim on the summary suggests that Linux Foundation is unusually efficient, which probably happens because it's not a hidden profit making scheme for its owners. Project support at over 50% of expenditures (separate from 3.4% of kernel-specific support) is pretty impressive, the rest going to infrastructure (a bit over 12%) and community training and events, with barely over 7% costs. Also, all the other projects are also pretty much based on top of Linux and thus driving linux-related things, as even Zephyr RTOS is heavily driven as something to use in cooperation with Linux based systems.
jimis 5y ago
The main complaint still stands: the report provides very few details about the incomes and expenses. Out of almost 100 slides, I only see one, titled "Financial Disclosures". And it does not contain many disclosures.

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eadmund 5y ago

That anyone finds terms like 'whitespace,' 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' problematic is an outrage. They are not racist, they have nothing to do with race (look up their histories!) and a charity should not spend even a single penny of its donors' money on trying to forbid their use. Folks should be outraged at this misuse of their donations.

dimitar 5y ago
The donors to LF, or at least where the money comes from are big tech corporations like Microsoft who likely insisted on inclusive language.
cgriswald 5y ago
> Folks should be outraged at this misuse of their donations. This is tantamount to telling other people how to spend their own money.
dang 5y ago
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. This one is particularly repetitive and predictable. Not what HN is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- eadmund 5y ago
  Should I have simply flagged bradleybuda's original comment instead? I did that first, then thought that a substantive comment was better (edit: and unflagged it).

norswap 5y ago

Ah yes, Google Kubernetes. That's where money should go.

p_l 5y ago

A quick skim on the summary suggests that Linux Foundation is unusually efficient, which probably happens because it's not a hidden profit making scheme for its owners. Project support at over 50% of expenditures (separate from 3.4% of kernel-specific support) is pretty impressive, the rest going to infrastructure (a bit over 12%) and community training and events, with barely over 7% costs. Also, all the other projects are also pretty much based on top of Linux and thus driving linux-related things, as even Zephyr RTOS is heavily driven as something to use in cooperation with Linux based systems.

jimis 5y ago

The main complaint still stands: the report provides very few details about the incomes and expenses. Out of almost 100 slides, I only see one, titled "Financial Disclosures". And it does not contain many disclosures.