Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear
Since its founding, the Linux Foundation has been a vendor-neutral supporter of Linux and open source software. Now, though, it's actively promoting such open source projects as OpenTofu and Valkey.when the Open Source Development Lab joined forces with the Free Standards Group to support Linux. In 2010, though, it evolved into a neutral, trusted foundation of foundations for developers and organizations to code, manage, and scale open technology projects and ecosystems.
for the semi-proprietary Business Source License 1.1 license. Terraform users, developers, and partners were not happy. So, as open source people are wont to do in situations like this, they Why is the Linux Foundation doing this? Chris Aniszczyk, Linux Foundation VP of developer relations, explained in an email:"At the end of the day, we serve the open source community that comes together when solving problems. We may have gotten a bit faster and working with any single vendor relicensing/fork issues, but these tend to be still in the minority the last time
Now, some will say that these companies are just trying to get their fair share of the pie from huge hyperscale cloud providers. Fair? I don't see the open source developers getting rich from these license changes. I see venture capitalists and private equity companies enriching themselves from the efforts of open source programmers.
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