Disgusting. Pausing my volunteer tablet driver contributions and any future Linux-related work until The Linux Foundation grows a bit of ethics. If they don’t change, I’ll look elsewhere.
➡️ Edit: Thanks to all your comments and feedback, I now see I'm reacting against The Linux Foundation’s misbehavior, not the open-source Linux community and ecosystem itself. They’re separate entities; I needed that reminder. My frustration is with that corp, not the code. I'll reconsider my pause.
@davidrevoy The Linux Foundation has Linux in the name but it's barely associated with it, their actions cannot be seen as representative of the Linux project.
@davidrevoy It's important to know that they do not own Linux in any sense. They are licensed to deal with trademark issues, essentially because Linus is intensely uninterested, so someone has to do that.
They do not own nor control the Linux kernel source code, nor that of the many Linux distributions.
They do host and legally coordinate the Linux kernel effort, but if they disappeared, the kernel people would simply find another way.
possible to fork
There's not even anything to fork that I'm aware of.
I've been using Linux since version 0.9, but I haven't been paying attention enough to know what on Earth they do with $300 million. I hope it's largely worthwhile, but I dunno.
@davidrevoy It's not just the kernel, it also ASWF (OpenColorIO, OpenImageIO, OpenEXR, OpenFX etc). Even if you "escape" Linux you won't get far. Your tools still depends on libraries maintained by ASWF/Linux Foundation.
