“huh huh huh if you’re so unhappy with how linus is leading the kernel, you can always ask for a refund”
bet. where do we send the invoices for all the labor we donated to the Linux ecosystem under a promise that’s now repeatedly been broken? the Foundation can cover it at standard consultants’ rates for commercial work. I haven’t done the accounting, but I imagine they should be able to cover at least a few million dollars worth before they have to start dipping into torvalds’ paycheck
I’m serious about this too, by the way
Linux as a project and as an ecosystem asked for our labor under false pretenses
why hasn’t its organizing foundation been flooded with itemized invoices for that labor?
and if you do this, include the hours you burned doing advocacy, too. that shit ain’t free.