And in fact, I frequently have disagreed with the Linux foundation and think it shouldn’t carry the name Linux, as most of their projects aren’t particularly related to Linux work.
It’s been a way for corporations to attach the Linux marketing value to their pet projects for a long time.
think it shouldn’t carry the name Linux, as most of their projects aren’t particularly related to Linux work.
I’d say that’s pretty normal for foundations. The Eclipse Foundation shoulders a marketplace for VSCode/VSCodium and adopted some OS projects. Apache foundation has adopted tons of different projects from IDEs over office software to code forges,
True, though not a whole lot of people think as highly about Eclipse or Apache as folks do Linux.
I don’t think companies are jumping up and down to try to manipulate their way to having nominal affinity to those projects compared to how so many companies want to have the ‘Linux approved’ impression with people not paying close attention to the ‘foundation’.
Linux the kernel =/= Linux Foundation. The LF is a very corporate organization with millions of donation money from industry sponsors.
And in fact, I frequently have disagreed with the Linux foundation and think it shouldn’t carry the name Linux, as most of their projects aren’t particularly related to Linux work.
It’s been a way for corporations to attach the Linux marketing value to their pet projects for a long time.
I’d say that’s pretty normal for foundations. The Eclipse Foundation shoulders a marketplace for VSCode/VSCodium and adopted some OS projects. Apache foundation has adopted tons of different projects from IDEs over office software to code forges,
True, though not a whole lot of people think as highly about Eclipse or Apache as folks do Linux.
I don’t think companies are jumping up and down to try to manipulate their way to having nominal affinity to those projects compared to how so many companies want to have the ‘Linux approved’ impression with people not paying close attention to the ‘foundation’.