Sourceware support proposal divides open source community (UPDATED)
The free and open source software (FOSS) community is caught in a love triangle of sorts, and it's all down to money.
Sourceware, a volunteer group that has been supporting various critical FOSS developer tools for more than two decades, is being courted by The Linux Foundation's Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). The OpenSSF aims to improve open source software security by providing Sourceware projects with more modern IT infrastructure.
But some members of the Sourceware community fear that accepting the help of the OpenSSF would give the corporate Linux world more leverage over FOSS developer tools. They would prefer to seek support from the Software Freedom Conservancy, a charitable non-profit that they believe is better aligned with software freedom.
The Linux Foundation, also a non-profit entity, is sponsored by, among others, Microsoft, Google, and Verizon; the conservancy is supported by Google, Mozilla, and others.
UPDATE
This is discussed today in LWN.
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Open source community split over offer of 'corporate' welfare for critical dev tools (Register) [LWN.net]
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