Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Sun, 29 Dec 2024, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-12-29 04:07, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) writes:

They're interesting cases. Google is determining the direction that
the Web evolves, thus the direction Firefox development has to go, and
they're the main ones paying Mozilla (for now). Hardware manufacturers
determine how computers evolve, and thus how Linux is developed to
work well on them, and maybe the Linux Foundation gets some funding
from the computer hardware companies (is this info public?), or at
least many code contributions from Intel and the like.

 The end of [1] has a high-level breakdown of funding sources.  [2] lists
its corporate members and [3] has the fee structure (towards the end).
 [1] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/resources/publications/linux-foundation-annual-report-2024
[2] https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members
[3]
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/LF%20Brand%20Assets/lf_member_benefits_101424a.pdf
 Intel, AMD, Arm, Microsoft, Google, IBM etc contribute code; you can
find them in the kernel’s git history.

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They contribute code but don't contribute much of the money toward Linux projects. Bryan Lunduke did a good job a few weeks ago of demonstrating how the Linux Foundation does very little to help Linux.

Yes! It seems their biggest project the past 3-4 years was to build out a surveillance state to catch people who did not want the corona vaccine. That's when I decided they will never get a penny from me.