[ale] Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation

[Jim Kinney]

So attendees at the next systemd talk need to wear bondage garb. 
Eww. The expected visual of that is unpleasant. IT attracts a crowd
accustomed to body sculpting by beer. Hundreds of chunky "Pulp Fiction"
style latex suited protestors at a systemd talk. Eww. 
On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 21:50 +0000, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Uh-oh – Now the tin foil hat paranoids are going to remind us Systemd
> is a plot for world domination.   Silly people think the d at the end
> of Systemd is for “daemon” but *they* KNOW it is for “domination”.
>  
>  
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Jim Kinney
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 4:38 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Linux Foundation quietly drops community
> representation
>  
> While the original gummiboot sources are gone, the code still exists
> but was merged into everyone's favorite tool: systemd
>  
> https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Gummiboot-Is-Dead
>  
> So Linux systems still have a EUFI boot tool but it's part of systemd
> as SD-boot. Looks like the entire code base was dumped in and renamed
> SD-boot. The original author worked on both projects.
>  
> I have not used it nor have I poked at it.
>  
> ArchLinux has more info on  using it
>  
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-boot
>  
> Sort of like when serial mice were dropped from the kernel. 
>  
>  
> On Thu, 2016-01-21 at 16:23 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:26:39 -0600
> Preston <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>  
> Very disappointed with this:
>  
> "Up until recently, the Linux Foundation allowed the individual
> members to elect two board members and ensure that the voice of Linux
> community is considered at the board meetings. In a shocking change,
> the Foundation has erased this clause and decided to benefit the
> corporate companies rather that whole community."
>  
>  
> http://fossbytes.com/why-linux-foundations-latest-change-is-a-bad-new
> -for-open-source/
>  
> Preston
>  
>  
> This surprises me not one bit. Linux Foundation is organized for big
> corporations, not for the unpaid developers and non-corporate users
> who
> built Linux in the first place. Here's a quote from Wikipedia:
>  
> ============================================================
> Its funding comes primarily from its Platinum Members: Fujitsu, HP,
> IBM, Intel, NEC, Oracle, Qualcomm, and Samsung and for many years
> Hitachi.[23] These nine each having a representative on the Board of
> Directors, they hold a majority on the 16-person board.[24]
> ============================================================
>  
> What I find quite scary about this is that the Linux Foundation
> possesses one of the few all-distro methods to boot with Secure Boot.
> The microsecond their major contributors decide an all-distro method
> to
> boot Secure Boot is contrary to their bottom line, none of us have an
> all-distro method, unless we find the last version, and fork it.
>  
> According to gummiboot Wikipedia page
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gummiboot_(software) :
>  
> =============================================================
> In May 2015, gummiboot was fully integrated into systemd to form its
> systemd-boot component that serves as a UEFI boot manager.[2][3]
> Following this action, the source code repository of gummiboot was
> emptied out in July 2015.
> =============================================================
>  
> "The source code repository of gummiboot was emptied out in July
> 2015."
>  
> Makes it just a little harder to fork, doesn't it?
>  
> From where I stand, corporate Linux will foreclose user choice if
> such
> foreclosure enhances the corporation's bottom line.
>  
> Unless you own or are paid by a big corporation, Linux Foundation is
> not your friend.
>  
> SteveT
>  
> Steve Litt 
> January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
>  
>  
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>  
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