The Linux Foundation has twelve platinum members, which donate $500000 per year, followed by twelve gold members, who donate $100000 per year. Below these two primary tiers lie the silver peasants, who each donate $5000-$25000 per year, based on number of employees. Looking at the list of twelve platinum members, I noticed something interesting.
Of the twelve platinum companies, six are “AI” companies or companies with massive investments in “AI”: Google, Huawei, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM/Red Hat. Then there’s Samsung Electronics, which is raking in stupendous amounts of money thanks to the “AI” bubble. Additionally, one of the gold members is Anthropic, another major “AI” company and makers of “Claude”, the sloppiest of slopcoding tools.[...]
Anyway, a large chunk of the funding the Linux Foundation, Linus Torvald’s employer, receives is coming from increasingly desperate companies frantically trying to convince a populace deeply skeptical and often downright hostile towards “AI” to spend money on “AI” before the bubble bursts.
Author fears to say outright that he believes that Linux Foundation is corrupt organisation that takes bribes. First they don't recieve a lot of money, small IT company I've worked before had ten times that money with <5 projects and 5-10 developers at time. Company I've worked before that had monthly profit bigger than yearly donations that LF recieves. Developer work costs a lot, menagerial work as well. Second, LF is hard to pressure by these supposed agents of corruption. Third, in the event of LF actually being corrupt they can't really force LT to say shit, they don't have 'or else' option.