This is a terrible article by an author who makes a living off of clickbait headlines. 3.4% of its money goes to Linux kernel development. This is because the

This is a terrible article by an author who makes a living off of clickbait headlines. 3.4% of its money goes to Linux kernel development. This is because they really don't have to hire kernel developers. Other companies do that for them. There are a handful of kernel developers employed by the Linux Foundation, but there doesn't need to be a lot, because there are already enough kernel developers hired by every other major corporation on the planet. GKH at one point said the entire reason the book Linux Device Drivers hasn't been updated since Linux 2.6 is because they already have enough kernel developers. If you look at the graphs, 68.8% of their expenditures are on project support and infrastructure, separately from the 3.4% going to the kernel. The LF is responsible for a lot. It's not just the kernel; there are thousands of things in Linux's ecosystem.