@bob "and they pay me a modest stipend to stay 'sold out'."

@bob The only downside is that they've had to let go of all those childish aspirations they had of making the world a better place. Yeah, that's the price of financial stability in tech these days. I guess I'm a lucky one, because I haven't had to make that compromise.

If you use proprietary software at no cost, it's "freeness" is a mirage. You will pay later. By using it, you are handing its developers' funders the stick which will be used to extract payment later.

Proprietary software's primary purpose is to make those paying its developers lots of money. 1/2

@lwriemen I followed Roy for a long time, too. Don't agree with everything about his approach, but his reports have had a big hand in shaping my opinion of that not-very-admirable foundation.

I'm not a big fan of Lunduke, but this is very disappointing (but not unexpected): https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-spends-just-34-of the Linux Foundation... doesn't have much to do with Linux. Some of what it does is possibly worthwhile, but its annual report is woefully obscure, opaque, and a lot of it seems to actively relegate Linux to the fringe.