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So what is this Linux foundation? As the correlation between this guide and the Linux mailing list is rather low.

• zahlman 1y ago
  > The Academy Software Foundation (ASWF) was founded in August 2018 by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) as a result of a two-year survey by the Science and Technology Council into the use of Open Source Software (OSS) across the motion picture industry. This is listed as a Linux Foundation "project" (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects), implying they receive one or more forms of support from the Foundation (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hosting https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects/hosting) although there isn't a lot of transparency to be found here about funding etc. What is clear is that the Linux Foundation is one of the two things in the entire FOSS world receiving significant funding (the other being Mozilla; the funding received even by e.g. the Python Software Foundation is nowhere close, even if you count Fastly's in-kind donation to keep PyPI running) — and quite little of that money actually goes towards the development of the Linux kernel itself. Attributing this guide to the Foundation as a whole doesn't seem well supported, though.