Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation

Posted Nov 18, 2016 8:28 UTC (Fri) by oldtomas (guest, #72579)
In reply to: Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation by kpfleming
Parent article: Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation

> It is a trade association by definition.

Yes, yes. Legally (de jure) it is.

> Always has been.

But not at heart (de corde). It's as if you said "the GPL is a license". It is, and it still... is different.

Gradually, LF has resembled more and more those despicable auto industry associations brib^H^H^H^H lobbying their way into state administrations. Or the BSA. Or all those *IAAs we like to love.