In an era where anyone can simply go to GitHub and start a project, the barriers to entry for open-source development are very low. The Linux Foundation however isn’t about basic open-source project hosting, according to Zemlin.
“One question that we ask ourselves all the time inside of The Linux Foundation is why do we need The Linux Foundation,” Zemlin told eWEEK in a video interview. “What’s the point?”
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