I wrote earlier that Wikipedia might be one of the biggest frauds in this century because it receives about 200 million dollars in donations every year, yet only uses 3 to 4 million dollars to actually running and maintaining the website. The rest goes to something entirely unrelated.
Well, not to be outcompeted, the Linux Foundation released their financial report for this year (which they have to do by law because they are a "non-profit" organization), and it turns out that in 2025 said foundation received 300 million dollars in donations, from which only 2.6% was spent on the development of Linux. Everything else was used for something unrelated to that development.
In fact, the report visibly and proudly proclaims how 60% of its funds went to "diverse community members". (And no, that's not "diverse community members who are maintaining and developing the Linux kernel", as the sum that goes to that development is separately listed. That 60% goes to who knows who, and who knows for what reason.)
That's right, in 2025 the Linux Foundation spent 180 million dollars that were donated to them by giving it to "diverse community members", whatever that means.
One has to wonder: How many people who eg. donate 100 dollars to Wikipedia are aware that only 2 or 3 of those donated dollars actually go to run and maintain the website, the rest going to something else entirely?
How many people who donate 100 dollars to the Linux Foundation are aware that only 2 or 3 of those donated dollars actually go to developing and maintaining Linux, the rest going to something else entirely? And, in fact, 60 of those dollars go to "diverse community members"?
I'm somewhat certain that vast, vast majority of donors are not aware of this and are under the illusion that all of the donated money goes to support the running and development of those projects.
Sure, some of the donors might be A-ok with the fact that 60% of what they donate goes to "diverse community members", but I wouldn't be surprised if that doesn't comprise all of the donors, most of who genuinely believe that it all goes to the project development itself.
There are corporations that donate literally millions of dollars to either or both organization, in the genuine belief that they are helping with a service that benefits both them and the world as a whole. There are also rich individual people who do the same, out of their own money, with the belief that they are supporting a free encyclopedia or a free operating system.
How many of them actually know how their money is being spent?
It should be no big surprise that both organizations are staffed and run by far-leftist activists.
As I mentioned in the other article, these may not be the "biggest frauds" this century in terms of the total amount of money bamboozled from people under deceitful pretenses (although they certainly are close), but in a manner of speaking they are because of their reputation and, thanks to that reputation, their complete lack of accountability and repercussions. Nobody is nor will ever be holding either organization accountable for this kind of de facto deceitful fraud, and in fact, a lot of people would still support them even if they were fully aware of where all the money is actually going.
That is what makes both frauds, in a way, the biggest of them all: The fact that not only are they getting away with it, but that a huge amount of people actually support them doing so.
Other big fraudsters wish they were in such a privileged position.
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