Working together and gaining trust

[Jeffrey Law]

On 2/13/2026 7:43 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> Jeffrey Law wrote earlier today:
>> I think we're still missing a key point.  Namely that from a fundraising
>> standpoint there are companies out there that are not willing to channel
>> money to Red Hat to run sourceware, nor are they willing to fund via the
>> FSF.   As soon as you bring in Red Hat or the FSF you cut off those sources
>> of funding.  They are willing to fund infrastructure (via the CTI) outside
>> the Red Hat and FSF organizations.
> Could you please name the specific organization(s) that would make a
> substantial ( ≥ $10k) contribution to fund Sourceware and/or infrastructure
> for glibc that would be unwilling to give such funds to all of the following
> organizations: { Red Hat, FSF, FSF Europe, Software Freedom Conservancy }
I'm not going to call them out like that.


>
> But, if there is an example of such an organization, we should make it
> publicly known.  And we should ask these organizations why they have
> blackballed such a large swath of FOSS organizations, and they should answer
> this publicly — in the spirit or transparency and software freedom.
No, I'm not going to do that.  Sorry.

jeff