The broader Linux and Open Source industry has been around for quite a number of years now — and brings in an absolutely staggering amount of money.
Like any such industry… there are going to be skeletons in the closet. Little facts that, while often hiding in plain sight, are kept as quiet as possible.
Let’s go over 6 such “dirty little secrets” of Linux and Open Source. Not all of these are, necessarily, bad things… but they are all topics that — for one reason or another — their respective companies and organizations (desperately) don’t want us to talk about.
And that, alone, makes them worth remembering.
The Linux Foundation is funded (and controlled) by Microsoft and Facebook
As of 2018, the cost of a “Platinum Membership” to the Linux Foundation cost $500,000 USD (half a million) per year. A system that propelled The Linux Foundation revenue up to $177 Million dollars in 2021.
— source lunduke.substack.com | Bryan Lunduke | Apr 26, 2022