The Linux Foundation has twelve platinum members, which donate $500000 per year, followed by twelve gold members, who donate $100000 per year. Below these two primary tiers lie the silver peasants, who each donate $5000-$25000 per year, based on number of employees. Looking at the list of twelve platinum members, I noticed something interesting.
Of the twelve platinum companies, six are “AI” companies or companies with massive investments in “AI”: Google, Huawei, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM/Red Hat. Then there’s Samsung Electronics, which is raking in stupendous amounts of money thanks to the “AI” bubble. Additionally, one of the gold members is Anthropic, another major “AI” company and makers of “Claude”, the sloppiest of slopcoding tools.[…]
Anyway, a large chunk of the funding the Linux Foundation, Linus Torvald’s employer, receives is coming from increasingly desperate companies frantically trying to convince a populace deeply skeptical and often downright hostile towards “AI” to spend money on “AI” before the bubble bursts.
Article seems to imply the Linux Foundation is susceptible to AI-related corruption/pressure.
But of all of the companies listed, Anthropic is the only one I’d consider related to what is implied.
Those other companies are huge conglomerates. They’re some of the biggest companies in the world, with a foothold in just about every sector. You might as well draw correlations to IPv6, SSL, or any other technology. These companies have a vested interest in Linux for a ton of stuff that isn’t related to AI at all. Stuff like network infrastructure and embedded devices come to mind.
yeah this is shit journalism - “just asking questions” with no analysis or knowledge of the topic
he calls out linus who has been as critical of ai as he has been supportive. linus has made it very clear that ai slop > /dev/null
this should be marked as “opinion” or a blog post or just gossip but no. this is what they call journalism at osnews