Looking at the budget breakdown it looks reasonable. * KERNEL DEV IS OUTSOURCED 100% - The kernel is developed mostly by paid employees that work for commercial entities. The kernel has 13 million lines of code. It is estimated that to actually pay everyone that wrote all of that would cost 1.4 billion dollars. Approximately 80% of the kernel was paid for by private companies, which means private companies paid 1.12 billion in high paying high wage labour to develop the kernel. * DEV COSTS SPREAD - Not only was the 1.12 billion spread over private companies and the work given away so no one paid a dime for accessing that 1.12 of free dev funding, it was spread out over many millions of companies which is really cool. The dev funding was spread out so widely that they simultaneously ended up spreading out the risk to an equally thin level. What this means is that they lowered the barrier to entry for collaboration to hyper competitive firms that wouldn't otherwise collaborate, which is an astonishing accomplishment. This fact is EVEN MORE INTERESTING when you consider that the number of firms that paid for the kernel dev is something like %.0001 percent of all companies existing on the planet and the kernel is a kind of development miracle. * The value of the kernel to the marketplace is well into the trillions of dollars. The Linux kernel runs basically everything in the marketplace, only a tiny few niches are not conquered, namely business desktops, gaming, the apple fashionistas and a few more edge cases. * So the foundation spends: %56 on support %13 on infrastructure %8 on training %7 on tooling %5 on events I don't see the problem. If I were running the foundation that is pretty much what I would do as well. The kernel is not built by the foundation. The foundation just oversees Torvalds and a few key people that keep the whole thing organized so that paid private company contributors can keep on contributing. People complaining about this have never run a company of any size worth talking about. If you guys want to complain about something worthwhile, complain about the Mozilla foundation not actually funding tech. Unlike the kernel, Mozilla 100% funds the gecko render engine dev and the tech around it yet spends most of its budget on bullshit. Actually, this whole conversation shows how little everyone here understand business. The kernel that runs everything on the planet, is overseen by a foundation that has a budget of $180 million. Mozilla that funds the gecko render engine + the tech around it has a budget of $500 million. The linux foundation actually spends more than %50 of its budget on support. The mozilla foundation just fired all of its BEST DEVELOPERS the other year and is funding all kinds of bullshit and has offices all around the world in the most expensive cities for no observable reason at all. Honestly, in comparison, the Linux foundation is a shining beacon of how well it is managing its piddly budget relative to the importance of the product that it oversees. // EDIT: For those of you bitching about this, consider that Lunduke is a jew. Watch his videos and read some of his articles. Notice the high verbal acuity? Then notice how he enjoys using that linguistic acuity to fiddle his content around and into bullshit that has exactly ZERO useful information? Yup, jew. It's in their genes, and that jew got you guys once again. He's been doing that bullshit schtick now for like 12 years, you really need to start recognizing jew grift.