70% of companies on the Linux Foundation Board are GPL violators.
The majority of Board Member seats at The Linux Foundation are purchased by companies -- If a company pays enough, they get a seat on the board. A pretty simple, and lucrative, arrangement. One that has resulted in The Linux Foundation bringing in roughly a quarter of a Billion dollars in 2023.
Interesting side note: Until 2016, The Linux Foundation had two Board Member seats which were elected by the individual members (including the average Linux enthusiasts who donated to The Linux Foundation). These were the "Community Representation" seats. But, in 2016, those were removed entirely. -- making all Board seats now only held by corporations.
There are, within the foundation, 24 seats on the Board -- representing 17 distinct companies (some companies have multiple seats).
Microsoft, Meta, Sony, Oracle, Samsung... lots of big names in here.
I wonder... how many of those companies have violated the GPL?