Facebook’s Long History of Open Source Investments Deepens with Platinum-level Linux Foundation Membership

From its efforts to reshape computing through open source to its aggressive push to increase internet connectivity around the world, Facebook is a leader in open innovation. Perhaps more important today than ever, Facebook’s focus on democratizing access to technology enhances opportunity and scale for individuals and businesses alike. That’s why we’re so excited to announce the company is joining the Linux Foundation at the highest level.

Facebook’s sponsorship of open innovation through the Linux Foundation will help support the largest shared technology investment in history with an estimated $16B in development costs of the world’s 100+ leading open source projects and supports those project communities through governance, events and education. The company is also already the lead contributor of many Linux Foundation-hosted projects, such as Presto, GraphQL, Osquery and ONNX. It has been an active participant in Linux kernel development, employing key developers and maintainers across major kernel subsystems.

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Linus Torvalds, employee of Vaccine Passport company, yells at developer for having concerns about COVID vaccine

https://lbry.tv/@Lunduke:e/LinuxVax:f

It wouldn't be a day that ends with Y if something randomly controversial wasn't occuring on the Linux Kernel Mailing list.

On Thursday, June 10th, 2021... A discussio was occuring regarding the Linux Kernel Summit... and making it an in person, remote, or "hybrid" event. One Linux kernel dev, Enrico Weigelt, posted the following:

"I know a lot of people who will never take part in this generic human experiment that basically creates a new humanoid race (people who generate and exhaust the toxic spike proteine, whose gene sequence doesn't look quote natural). I'm one of them, as my whole family."

In response, Linus Torvalds jumped in with the following:

"Please keep your insane and technically incorrect anti-vax comments to yourself.

You don't know what you are talking about, you don't know what mRNA is, and you're spreading idiotic lies. Maybe you do so unwittingly, because of bad education. Maybe you do so because you've talked to "experts" or watched youtube videos by charlatans that don't know what they are talking about.

But dammit, regardless of where you have gotten your mis-information from, any Linux kernel discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me."

cough

I get the feeling like Linus has an opinion!

Linus concluded:

"Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-vax lies.

And if you insist on believing in the crazy conspiracy theories, at least SHUT THE HELL UP about it on Linux kernel discussion lists."

Now, I'm not going to go into if LInus is right. Or if Enrico is right. Or if neither are completely right.

What I will comment on is this:

All comments relating to COVID vaccines were then blocked by mailing list moderators with the following message:

"moderator hat on I'm requesting that all vaccine talk is restricted solely to how it would impact international travel to/from ksummit."

This moderation was not applied to Linus's rant, however. That was allowed.

Worth mentioning:
Linus Torvald's employer, The Linux Foundation, is now in the business of making COVID vaccine passports
https://www.lfph.io/
Any statement, by him, critical of a COVID vaccine would hurt the Linux Foundation's new business endeavor.

That endeavor has been met with overwhelming praise from the Linux and Tech press. And zero criticism from the Tech Press... other than from yours truly. Likewise, you can expect Linus's statement quoted above to be met with overwhelming praise -- and, again, zero criticism -- from the Tech Press.

What all of that means I will leave as an exercise for the reader.


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