From Gemini

The video is about the controversy surrounding how the Linux Foundation spends its money.

The speaker, Brodie Robertson, argues that the Linux Foundation should spend more money on the Linux desktop and less on other projects, such as blockchain and machine learning. He points out that the Linux Foundation employs the vast majority of core kernel developers, but that only a small percentage of its funding goes to Linux kernel development.

Robertson acknowledges that the Linux Foundation is not obligated to listen to his criticism, as it is a member-driven organization. However, he believes that it is still important to have a conversation about how the Linux Foundation spends its money.

Here are the key points:

• The Linux Foundation is the biggest employer of Linux kernel developers.
• Only a small percentage of the Linux Foundation's funding goes to Linux kernel development.
• The Linux Foundation spends money on a variety of other projects, such as blockchain and machine learning.
• Brodie Robertson believes that the Linux Foundation should spend more money on the Linux desktop.
• The Linux Foundation is a member-driven organization and is not obligated to listen to Robertson's criticism.

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The video discusses criticism of the Linux Foundation and how it spends its funds. While the Linux Foundation is the largest employer of Linux kernel developers, only 2-3% of its budget goes towards that. The rest is spent on various other projects like blockchain, AI, and cloud computing. The video creator argues that the Linux Foundation should allocate more of its funding towards improving the Linux desktop ecosystem, which is underfunded compared to these other initiatives. However, the video acknowledges that the Linux Foundation is beholden to the interests of its corporate members, who likely prioritize the other areas the foundation supports. The video presents the creator's perspective, while recognizing the Linux Foundation's right to spend its money as it sees fit.

I'd post a blog post if there was one

No profit in that, though, so doubt any corpos will do it.

But in theory it should not be hard to do, there has to be a way to extract YT's subtitles by scraping the page in something like Selenium (might be some trouble if they are really generated at runtime or in batches rather than once per video at upload and sent from backend during beginning of playback and simply made invisible in the source), then simply run a summarize prompt on the text to a local Mistral or w/e and have a result. If using 'Open'AI's API, could even have it be a Firefox extension with mobile support.

Personally I don’t mind the dual license of QT, but many Linux developers are very idealistic, and don’t like it.

The other issue is that they switched their LGPL license from v2 to v3.

Fair points but I still think there's one "desktop" project they host that should not only be supported and get fundings, but be one of their top priorities: Servo.

I think it's crucial not only for the Linux desktop but for the future of the open web. It's has the potential to be a great web renderer engine (it's built atop Rust) and, with good support and development, in the middle-long haul it could be a serious, community-driven alternative to the hegemony of Chrome/Chromium.

After Mozilla ditched it due to the abhorrent administration they had, it went to The Linux Foundation. Afaik there's no more paid people working on it nor working on it full time as it was when it was under Mozilla. With its enormous funding it's insane that Servo has to look out for its own fundings.

Why though?

Anti Commercial-AI license

And of course its you again. Thanks for this well thought out and informative, yet concise comment as always.