So far I count: - Linux Foundation quietly dropped community representation. - The Radeon related conspiracies (I didn't look at it in depth yet). - The libusb related conspiracy (See Peter Stuge's talk at 32C3). - The X.org foundation corporate membership limit change attempt. Is there other examples of such patterns that I missed? Are theses isolated incidents? Or are they part of a bigger picture?
If it is, I can only think of corporate control over free software projects, but why? I guess free software companies wouldn't benefit from it. However I think that the proprietary software companies would. They nowadays depend on free software so they can't kill it, they probably don't want to either. However controlling the associations and leveraging such control could be used to help prevent free software from replacing their proprietary products.
Here I'm only wondering if something is happening, and I don't have any answers.
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Is this trend isolated or common?
Date: 2016-01-22 11:51 pm (UTC)- Linux Foundation quietly dropped community representation.
- The Radeon related conspiracies (I didn't look at it in depth yet).
- The libusb related conspiracy (See Peter Stuge's talk at 32C3).
- The X.org foundation corporate membership limit change attempt.
Is there other examples of such patterns that I missed?
Are theses isolated incidents? Or are they part of a bigger picture?
If it is, I can only think of corporate control over free software projects, but why?
I guess free software companies wouldn't benefit from it.
However I think that the proprietary software companies would. They nowadays depend on free software so they can't kill it, they probably don't want to either.
However controlling the associations and leveraging such control could be used to help prevent free software from replacing their proprietary products.
Here I'm only wondering if something is happening, and I don't have any answers.