I’ll give the parent poster the benefit of the doubt and say that it’s a satirical user account. It’s called spez_, named after the reddit CEO, I’m guessing.
Developers don’t necessarily make the best fundraisers, auditors, accountants, human resource managers, legal advisors, or any of a hundred other disciplines involved in running a large organisation.
This particular person seems to have extensive experience managing large non-profits and membership organisations; which is exactly what the GNOME Foundation is. There’s no expectation that everyone on the board of directors will know how to cut code…
So you want software developers to spend less time building the software so they can run a nonprofit too? Do you think all the conferences, sites, fundraising, marketing, extensive help docs, bug processing, and community engagement is all something that can just be done on the side?
Just ask any software dev working st any of these foundations. They don’t want to do any of the business-side work. Or, if they do, they certainly don’t want to do it alone. If they were alone in it, they wouldn’t have time to write code.
Without those things open source would slowly die. All of those are about getting more users for products, getting funding to make them happen, but more importantly, inspiring the next group of contributors.
Open source doesn’t just appear out of thin air. It costs money and time. People need to care about it.
Without users, a project is just a hobby and unlikely to persist long term. Without funding, contributors are forced to abandon for jobs to out food on the table. Without the next group of contributors to pass the torch onto, projects die.
Nobody uses 6y old kernels, that’s why the decision was made not because of “a lack resources blah blah”. Why waste our man hours backporting to an unused kernel.
I remember I used to watch Bryan Lunduke’s videos a lot, and then he became a right wing nutjob with the China lab COVID and all kinds of Trump stuff. Stopped watching him. So again, why is he being posted around on Lemmy so much?
The Linux Foundation is a 509(a)(3) support organization.
In other words, they provide legal and financial infrastructure to smaller open source projects that aren’t big enough to justify their own foundation.
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