• jj4211@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    And in fact, I frequently have disagreed with the Linux foundation and think it shouldn’t carry the name Linux, as most of their projects aren’t particularly related to Linux work.

    It’s been a way for corporations to attach the Linux marketing value to their pet projects for a long time.

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      26 minutes ago

      think it shouldn’t carry the name Linux, as most of their projects aren’t particularly related to Linux work.

      I’d say that’s pretty normal for foundations. The Eclipse Foundation shoulders a marketplace for VSCode/VSCodium and adopted some OS projects. Apache foundation has adopted tons of different projects from IDEs over office software to code forges,