According to the latest annual report from the Linux Foundation (LF), less than 3% of its budgetary resources are allocated to the thing it is named after!

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    9 days ago

    Well yeah only 3% go to the kernel. Most of the rest seems to be going to everything else required for a functional OS. The kernel alone is fairly useless.

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      9 days ago

      the kernel alone is fairly useless

      Any essential part is usually fairly useless without the other parts

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      9 days ago

      Seems to be going to Corporate Operations, Event Services, Project Support. But little goes to Linux kernel, and project infrastructure.

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        9 days ago

        Yeah, the money’s “going to” two of the least funded categories in the chart. 🙄

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        7 days ago

        That’s i believe is diversity in OS market. More funding to NetBSD and other alternative OSes should be done.

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      8 days ago

      Yeah I was wanting more. This looks like things that support development. Being open-source, a lot of developers have day jobs elsewhere so kinda makes sense the line items for paying them might be small.

      Was this coming from within the kernel community?