The Linux Foundation Diversity & Inclusivity

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/ ^ | June 9, 2024 | Linux Foundation

[fireman15]

Diversity & Inclusivity

The power of collaboration is greater when many different perspectives are included.

Addressing Diversity and Inclusivity

A diversity of ideas and contributions, one that originates from a diverse community, from all walks of life, cultures, countries, and skin colors—is vital for building sustainable and healthy open source communities. Individuals from diverse backgrounds inject new and innovative ideas to advance an inclusive and welcoming ecosystem for all. Linux Foundation is committed to building diverse and inclusive communities. Creating those diverse communities requires effort and commitment to creating inclusive and welcoming spaces. We continue to work to address this problem through various initiatives, including:

Inclusive Language Efforts

Communities that adopt inclusive language and actions will be able to attract and retain individuals from diverse backgrounds. The Linux kernel community adapted inclusive language in Linux 5.8 release showing its commitment to Diversity and Inclusion. For other projects, the launched at KubeCon North America to standardize inclusive language across the industry.

Open Hardware Diversity Alliance

The Open Hardware Diversity Alliance is a RISC-V incubating project with the mission of bringing together the open hardware community to provide programs, networking opportunities, and learning to encourage participation and support to the professional advancement of women and underrepresented individuals in open source hardware.

Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion

We are also focusing on Science and Research to Advance Diversity and Inclusion in Software Engineering. Our new Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion (SDDI) project will draw on science and research to deliver resources and best practices that increase D&I in software engineering.

Training and Certification

The Linux Foundation provides free training to women and underrepresented communities to support career development. More than 100,000 women have taken our free, Massive Online Open Courses (MooCs) in partnership with edX.

[Montana_Sam]

Linux (meaning “the kernel”) ships with the software drivers for hardware, so it is quite big. But that philosophy is a solid way around the chaos of Microsoft’s chaotic approach (Where do you want to try to find a driver? Hunh? Where is it? HUNH??) And it also explains why GNU/Linux plays so well with older hardware, because the older drivers remain included.

[fireman15]

No worries about the ping :-) I'll add ShadowAce since he's the prime mover for Linux / Open-Source stuff on FR.

I consider you, ShadowAce, and Swordmaker to be the Father, Son and Holy Ghost of computer threads here. I am not sure why there have been few Apple threads lately. The new iPhone 16 is due right around labor day. There were a few threads on the Vision Pro early in the years. Maybe the Biden economy makes it difficult to sell a refined product for $2500 that is very similar to products that are currently selling for around $200. I don't know?

/p>

As far as youthfulness goes... I think your age puts you in the middle of the pack around here.

[Scrambler Bob]

At least their name, ‘Linux’ is already correct.

Not Linos or Linas.

[Campion]

"Sponsoring Linux Torvalds" is not the same thing as "producing the Linux kernel". The first is paying Linus' bills. The second is producing the Linux kernel.

You do understand the difference, don't you?

You do understand that Linus is one of many people involved with producing the kernel, and most of those people either (a) work for other companies, and their job allows or protes them working on the kernel; (b) work for other companies and just do "moonlight" work on the kernel; or (c) are retired, etc.

It isn't the case that Linux Foundation pays all or even very many of those people a salary, technically steers kernel development, etc.

[Campion]

Linus Torvalds didn't conceive much of anything. He hijacked the UNIX code framework especially the patents and IBM let him get away with it.

IBM didn't develop Unix, AT&T did, originally. Not sure why you think IBM would have a dog in that fight. There is IBM tech in the kernel; IBM put it there.

The whole "Linux infringes Unix patents" was already litigated in the SCO case. SCO got their clock cleaned in that one. It's a non-starter.

[Paal Gulli]

There are roughly 400 flavors of Linux, 600 if you count the abandoned ones. That’s almost enough for every gender to have a flavor of their own, so I don’t know how much more diverse you possibly could get.

[Campion]

You don't read very well. Let's try this again. ALL of Red Hat's tech was available for FREE to any foreign government on the public Internet BEFORE IBM bought them.

[fireman15]

It is very obvious that you didn’t read my first post... That would be post number 1 in this thread. Read that and stop wasting people’s time with your mischaracterizations.

[Golden Eagle]

IBM didn't develop Unix, AT&T did, originally. Not sure why you think IBM would have a dog in that fight.

LOL. You obviously know little about these things.

The whole "Linux infringes Unix patents" was already litigated in the SCO case.

Again, you're completely wrong. SCO didn't have any (or very many) UNIX patents. IBM did, check that article I posted. They chose not to enforce them, because it helped them destroy their American competitors, and open doors to new foreign customers.

[Golden Eagle]

ALL of Red Hat's tech was available for FREE to any foreign government on the public Internet BEFORE IBM bought them.

Unfortunately, you are exposing yourself as fairly ignorant on this topic. Sorry but that claim is once again just totally wrong. The only thing free from Red Hat was Fedora, a beta product, for the desktop. You really need to brush up on some basic knowledge before you wade in against Freepers that have debated this subject for decades.

[Pollard]

Whatever. At least I’m not paying for it. Haven’t paid a penny for an OS in 20 years.

[ShadowAce]

The only thing free from Red Hat was Fedora, a beta product, for the desktop.

Again--incorrect. I ran Red Hat's product for free for several years. Not Fedora (though I did run that also), but Red Hat. What Red Hat charged for was support. Anyone could downloads and run the OS.

[Gene Eric]

The general linux distributions have been free forever. The subscriptions entered the market when commercial interests were willing to pay for hot patching and general online updates ensuring enterprise class reliability and security. Nothing wrong with saying Red Hat when referring to the free distributions it made available. Same goes with SUSE (SLES, OpenSuse), and whatever distributions are provided by Oracle in the relatively recent years. I was an early adopter of Xen on SLES, and loved the Slackware distributions just because. I always had the option for the free distributions, but elected to pay for the SLES subscriptions for the hypervisors (for the obvious commercial reasons).

[Gene Eric]

correct, the costs concern support, online maintenance, hot patching

[Gene Eric]

and custom driver packs usually related to real-time processing, paravirtualization, etc.

[zeugma]

That was hilarious. Isn’t Poettering the idiot behind the abortion known as systemd?
If so he can piss right off. I don’t know anyone who has done more damage to linux.

[powerset]

Scam? Evidence please.

P.S. Linus Torvalds was born in Finland, not the US, and started Linux there. It caught on, because it was good technology. And it was open to everybody (sort of like actual science).

[zeugma]

Looks like your thread called the Brass Buzzard out of retirement from polluting Linux threads. That does no bode well of future such threads on FR

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[Hermes37]

You seem to be a conspiracy zealot.

Didn't Earn It (DEI) is ruining everything but, there is _always_ a but, The Linux Foundation is _NOT_ Linux.

It's lipstick for a pig.

Most “humans” are lax on security if their environment is safe enough for electronic devices to be common.

Slackware user since 1994 or so.
Unlike most I do take full responsibility for my security.
That does not imply it is fantastic just that I take responsibility.

You paint fellow FR users with a wide brush and single yourself out for narrow brush treatment IMHO.

In other news 6.10-rc3 is available :-)