Facebook Openwashing via the Linux Foundation (UPDATEDx6)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 12, 2022,
updated Sep 21, 2022

• Announcing the PyTorch Foundation: A new era for the cutting-edge AI framework [Ed: 'Linux' Foundation as incubator of US espionage (Facebook); because nowadays "Linux" is merely a buzzwords that means surveillance, too. The real news is, Facebook gives the Microsoft/NSA duo control over code, in yet another openwashing move that leverages the power of the "Linux" brand.]

• Meta’s deep learning framework PyTorch to be led by the newly formed PyTorch Foundation

  Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. announced today that it’s handing over control of the popular PyTorch artificial intelligence platform it created to the Linux Foundation’s newly formed PyTorch Foundation.

• Meta moves PyTorch to Linux Foundation [Ed: Microsoft boosters (Ina Fried) conflate "Linux" with outsourcing to Microsoft's proprietary software prison, GitHub]

Some more of this openwashing now, as shown below

UPDATE

• Hyperledger Announces Eight New Members, Including CasperLabs, Banque de France and Central Bank of Nigeria, to Kick off Hyperledger Global Forum [Ed: Linux is becoming a bankers' buzzword now]

• Facebook Transfers Open-Source PyTorch AI Framework to Linux Foundation for Governance

  The Linux Foundation will now oversee the PyTorch AI framework from a project governance level.

  In a Facebook post, meta (formerly Facebook) founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that the popular and widely used PyTorch framework would be governed by The Linux Foundation. While Linux Foundation will oversee the project, it will still be led by scientists and researchers from Metal.

• Welcoming PyTorch to the Linux Foundation

  Today we are more than thrilled to welcome PyTorch to the Linux Foundation. Honestly, it’s hard to capture how big a deal this is for us in a single post but I’ll try.

• Meta Transitions PyTorch to the Linux Foundation, Further Accelerating AI/ML Open Source Collaboration

A couple more.

• New Metaverse Track at O3DCon to Tackle Big Questions and Practical Applications of Emerging Graphical Technology [Ed: Linux Foundation as front group for GAFAM of MAGMA]

• Meta Transitions PyTorch to the Linux Foundation

Now four more of these (copy paste job, they do not investigate).

• Meta Transitions PyTorch to the Linux Foundation, Further Accelerating AI/ML Open Source Collaboration

• Meta Passes PyTorch, the Python Machine Learning Framework, to the Linux Foundation - Hackster.io

  Meta cedes control of the open source project in favor of the newly-formed PyTorch Foundation, without "any of the good things" changing.

• PyTorch joins the Linux Foundation - SD Times

  The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit, open-source organization, today unveiled that PyTorch is transitioning away from Meta and joining the foundation where it will exist under the newly-formed PyTorch Foundation.

• Hyperledger Announces Eight New Members, Including CasperLabs, Banque de France and Central Bank of Nigeria, to Kick off Hyperledger Global Forum

One more tonight.

• PyTorch gets lit under The Linux Foundation • The Register

  Meta is shifting the management of PyTorch, a deep learning framework developed by Meta subsidiary Facebook, to the newly formed PyTorch Foundation, which in turn will be under the oversight of The Linux Foundation.

Now for Micosoft directly.

• LinkedIn Donates Feature Store to Linux Foundation [Ed: 'Linux' Foundation openwashing for Microsoft]

  LinkedIn today announced that its open source feature store, dubbed Feathr, is joining LF AI & Data, the Linux Foundation’s umbrella foundation for big data and AI projects.

Another openwashing campaign today.

• Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation

  The Linux Foundation, a global nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, today announced the intention to form the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), a new collaborative effort to develop open source software to support interoperability for a wide range of wallet use cases. The initiative already benefits from strong support including leading companies across technology, public sector, and industry vertical segments, and standardization organizations.

• Linux Foundation announces the OpenWallet Foundation to develop interoperable digital wallets

• Linux Foundation Announces an Intent to Form the OpenWallet Foundation

Now come the shallow, preplanned and prepaid puff pieces.

• Linux Foundation unveils plans for open-source OpenWallet

• Linux Foundation unveils open source digital wallet consortium

• Linux Foundation's Announces Open-Source Digital Wallet Initiative, May Include Crypto

• Linux Foundation announces the OpenWallet Foundation to develop interoperable digital wallets

Also Slashdot, misfiled under "Linux".

• Linux Foundation Announces the OpenWallet Foundation To Develop Interoperable Digital Wallets - Slashdot

  The Linux Foundation has announced plans for a new collaborative initiative designed to support interoperability across digital wallets, built on an open source bedrock.

A couple more today.

• PyTorch Moves to the Linux Foundation

  PyTorch is moving to the Linux Foundation (LF) as a top-level project, announced Soumith Chintala on the PyTorch blog.

  “PyTorch is one of the most important and successful machine learning software projects in the world today,” says Jim Zemlin, the LF’s executive director, and it has become a primary platform for AI research.

• PyTorch gets lit under The Linux Foundation • The Register

  Meta is shifting the management of PyTorch, a deep learning framework developed by Meta subsidiary Facebook, to the newly formed PyTorch Foundation, which in turn will be under the oversight of The Linux Foundation.

  "PyTorch has become one of the leading AI platforms with more than 150,000 projects on GitHub built on the framework," said Meta CEO Mark Zuckberg in a Facebook post. "The new PyTorch Foundation board will include many of the AI leaders who've helped get the community where it is today, including Meta and our partners at AMD, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia."

  According to Meta, putting PyTorch within its own foundation "ensures that decisions will be made in a transparent and open manner by a diverse group of board members for many years to come."

SJVN has a sponsored puff piece also.

• Facebook's PyTorch AI ignites at the Linux Foundation | ZDNET

  PyTorch, one of the most important machine learning frameworks around, is moving from underneath Facebook's rule to the Linux Foundation.

Now in dodgy sites:

• Linux to launch Foundation to support digital wallet development [Ed: Conflating Linux with Linux Foundation; the latter is promoting frauds and abuses against human rights, not Linux]

• Linux Foundation to form the OpenWallet Foundation to push for a universal digital wallet infrastructure [Ed: With 'OpenWallet', the Linux Foundation now helps promote some of the same frauds that Jim Zemlin's wife promoted]

• Why Linux Will Form The OpenWallet Foundation

Another one:

• Linux Foundation to develop open-source engine for digital wallets with new foundation

And another:

• Linux Foundation announces the OpenWallet Foundation to develop interoperable digital wallets

  The OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), as the new effort is called, is the brainchild of Daniel Goldscheider, CEO of open banking startup Yes.com, though today’s announcement reveals a broad gamut of buy-ins from multiple industry players including Okta, Ping Identity, Accenture, CVS Health, OpenID Foundation, among several other public and private bodies. With the Linux Foundation serving as the project’s host, this gives OWF sizeable clout as it strives to enable what Goldscheider calls a “plurarity of wallets based on a common core,” according to a press release.

One more of these today:

• The Linux Foundation wants to tackle digital wallets next

  The Linux Foundation has announced plans to form a new entity, the OpenWallet Foundation (OWF), which will provide the basis for companies to create digital wallets on an open source platform.

  “The mission of the OWF is to develop a secure, multi-purpose open source engine anyone can use to build interoperable wallets," the organization explained.

  “The OWF aims to set best practices for digital wallet technology through collaboration on open source code for use as a starting point for anyone who strives to build interoperable, secure, and privacy-protecting wallets.”

No connection whatsoever to Linux, just openwashing (Microsoft) as a service:

• CGIAR and the Linux Foundation partner to unl | EurekAlert!

  CGIAR and the Linux Foundation have formed a research partnership to develop a standard way of sharing data about agricultural fields at scale, which could deliver global benefits, including for the estimated 500 million smallholder farmers that produce about a third of the world’s food.

A few more puff pieces (connected to LF itself).

• Linux Foundation launches open source digital wallet project

• Meta Transitions PyTorch to the Linux Foundation

• Linux Foundation Europe to Focus on Open Collaboration [Ed: Microsoft front group expands to a continent where it can misrepresent Linux users some more]

Liam on the openwash.

• Open standards body for digital wallets announced

  The Linux Foundation is backing a new trade body, the OpenWallet Foundation, to create an open standard for digital wallets.

  No, really, hang on… this announcement genuinely is good news for once. We're not talking about digital payments or anything like that – although it can help with those, if you choose to trust them. And we're definitely not talking about storing your imaginary internet play money.

Linux Foundation continues to 'legitimise' unethical things like surveillance and even outright frauds by lending the Linux Mark to them; it harms Linux.

• Food security group, Linux Foundation to work on crop data • The Register

  Food security group CGIAR is working with the Linux Foundation to standardize data sharing about agricultural fields on a global scale.

  The partnership aims to unify data standards and operating procedures to support the sharing and use of field boundary data, which they suggest could deliver benefits for the 500 million smallholder farmers that produce about a third of the world's food.

  Sumer Johal, exec director of The AgStack Project at the Linux Foundation, said: "CGIAR and the Linux Foundation are natural partners. Both are trusted intermediaries with global partner networks, facilitating pre-competitive collaboration and products for the public good. Together we can help remove the blockages around working with field data in a community-driven way."

More by Kay Ewbank.

• Linux Foundation Announces Open Wallet Initiative

  The Linux Foundation is setting up a new foundation. The aim is for the new OpenWallet Foundation to encourage the development of open source software to support interoperability for a wide range of wallet use cases.

  The Linux Foundation is a global nonprofit organization that works to enable innovation through open source software. The foundation says the latest initiative already has strong support from leading companies across technology, public sector, and industry vertical segments, and standardization organizations.

A bit older:

• Meta is spinning off the Pytorch framework into its own AI research foundation

  In 2016, Meta (then but a simple country Facebook) launched its open-source AI research library, the Pytorch framework. Six years and 150,000 projects from 2,400 contributors later, Meta announced on Monday that the Pytorch project will soon spin out from the company’s direct control to become its own entity, the Pytorch Foundation, a subsidiary within the larger Linux Foundation nonprofit hegemony.

Microsoft spin:

• LinkedIn’s open-source Feathr feature store for machine learning joins the LF AI & Data Foundation [Ed: 'Linux' Foundation works for Microsoft. Openwashing services for a malicious and proprietary surveillance machine.]

  Microsoft Corp.-owned professional networking site LinkedIn is donating another project to the open-source community.

And more fluff:

• Linux Foundation announces OpenWallet Foundation for interoperable open-source digital wallets - SiliconANGLE

  The Linux Foundation today announced plans to form a new collaborative initiative called the OpenWallet Foundation to support the development of interoperable open-source digital wallets.

Another older one:

• Meta passes PyTorch ownership to Linux Foundation in a bid to improve transparency | IT PRO

  Meta has announced that PyTorch, its open source framework for machine learning, will become part of the Linux Foundation and reorganise under a new PyTorch Foundation.

PR instead of journalism:

• Newly formed Linux Foundation Europe provides inside track on OSS Dublin 2022 [Ed: Adrian Bridgwater is running propaganda for LF. "This is a guest post written by Dan Whiting, director of media relations and communications for the Linux Foundation." Passing this off as journalism?]

  Whiting writes as follows…

  This month, the open source community gathered in Dublin for the Open Source Summit Europe (OSS Europe), hosted by the Linux Foundation. Over 1,500 people joined in-person and another 800 virtually. As usual, there was lots of knowledge sharing on a broad range of open source topics and, of course, a reception at the Guinness Factory because, when in Dublin…

Still in titles today:

• Pytorch's Shift from Meta to Linux Foundation: For Good or Bad?

More Microsoft openwashing. LinkedIn is spying and it is proprietary.

• LinkedIn donates Feathr, their feature store, to the Linux Foundation - Dataconomy

  LinkedIn announced today that Feathr, its open source feature store, has joined LF AI & Data, the Linux Foundation’s umbrella foundation for big data and AI initiatives.