Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund

Google and the Linux Foundation today announced the creation of the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" fund to help provide funding to open-source developers working on Chromium-based open-source projects...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Supporting-Chromium-Browsers

[shmerl]

Can Chromium for a change fix the annoying missing XDG base directory mess with $HOME/.pki clutter? It's fixed upstream a long time ago (in libnss), but Chromium developers don't care to change how they use libnss to avoid that.

This hits anything that's embedding it, like QtWebEngine and etc.

[Vermilion]

Ideally Chromium should be handed over to some collaborative foundation that oversees its development, like how Linux or LLVM are developed.

[hf_139]

As always, the Linux Foundation doing the bidding of giant corporations.
Good dogs.
Only 2.30% of the Linux Foundations revenue in 2024 went to the kernel.

[Volta]

As always, the Linux Foundation doing the bidding of giant corporations.
Good dogs.
Only 2.30% of the Linux Foundations revenue in 2024 went to the kernel.

Such foundations are nothing else, but corporate servants. Should disappear.

[raystriker]

Hot take: the linux foundation was never about the people

[Danny3]

And I thought that KDE wasting time and other resources to make their software work well with Nvidia and Canonical products was bad, now we have the Linux foundation helping Google have more monopoly in the browsers and web world...
Fuck you the Linux foundation!
You have done absolutely nothing to help Linux and open source software and now you help our enemies even more, absolutely disgusting.
But hey, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But in this case we can replace power with money and it's still the same thing.
Besides FSF and Wikipedia, I don't know a single organization with really good principles.

[sophisticles]

As always, the Linux Foundation doing the bidding of giant corporations.
Good dogs.
Only 2.30% of the Linux Foundations revenue in 2024 went to the kernel.

News flash, the Linux Foundation is composed of giant corporations:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/membershttps://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

And is run by giant corporations:

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/leadership

Look at the Board of Directors and the Technical Advisory Board and what do you see?

Regarding Only 2.30% of the Linux Foundations revenue in 2024 went to the kernel, this is extremely misleading.

In 2023 the Linux Foundation has revenue of 196 million dollars; 2.3% is just over 4.5 million dollars, the only expenses associated with kernel development are the salaries of the developers, which with Linux earning 1.7 million in 2022 and 1.5 million in 2023.

The 2024 numbers are not available yet, but a salary of over 1.5 million dollars a year to work on a project that you started is not bad money.

Make no mistake, Linux is very much a big business, this Robin Hood inspired view that some Linux faithful have is complete separated from the reality.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460503801

[botipua22]

Mozilla Foundation focuses on everything except Firefox. Linux Foundation focuses on everything except Linux.

[CommunityMember]

As always, the Linux Foundation doing the bidding of giant corporations.
Good dogs.

So, you are saying that you don't do the work your funding agency (employer) is asking you to do? You must have a great employer if they just give you money to just do whatever you want whenever you want. Can you share the name of that employer, I want that job!

When the corporations provide the money, the organizations are going to support what the money is being provided to do.

Only 2.30% of the Linux Foundations revenue in 2024 went to the kernel.

Linux is (was always) more than just a kernel. It is an ecosystem. The Linux foundation provides funds to many of those other things that make the ecosystem viable.