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According to the latest annual report from the Linux Foundation (LF), less than 3% of its budgetary resources are allocated to the thing it is named after!

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[–] dragnucs@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Seems to be going to Corporate Operations, Event Services, Project Support. But little goes to Linux kernel, and project infrastructure.

[–] jaypatelani@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

That's i believe is diversity in OS market. More funding to NetBSD and other alternative OSes should be done.

[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What do you think Project Support is?

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Well they could do a far better job of getting across what the expenses are. They may as well say 100% went to things relevant to the linux foundation.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Paying a bunch of marketing people to fly around the world attending conferences that only they go to, to talk about more conferences they'll be hosting for the same purpose.

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the money's "going to" two of the least funded categories in the chart. 🙄