@mhoye@cosocial.ca This post builds up a straw man just to set it on fire. The logos you posted are from companies that donate directly to kernel.org (not Linux Foundation). Kernel.org is a separate legal entity from Linux Foundation and is a registered charitable organization. Donating to kernel.org is tax deductible whereas contributing to the Linux Foundation isn't. These companies are gladly and willingly donating their resources to kernel.org specifically. The companies supporting kernel.org operations are: Akamai: provides free hosting to git.kernel.org and lore.kernel.org. Constellix: provides free DNS hosting with failover and geoDNS. Fastly: provides CDN services. Servers.com: provides mirrors.kernel.org hosting (the two nodes that we currently have in operation). Google: provides a git mirror at kernel.googlesource.com. Red Hat: donates RHEL licenses. Linux Foundation: employs staff operating kernel.org The reason I'm asking for more hosting opportunities for mirrors.kernel.org is two-fold: it's a community service that hosts distros, and not so much the kernel. Providing mirroring opportunities for distros is not our primary charter -- we provide kernel archives, not distro binaries. However, we've operated mirrors.kernel.org for 30-odd years and if we stop running the service, parts of the Internet break (it's a fact). So, we continue operating it and will do so for the foreseeable future. The second reason is because for many hosting companies it makes a lot of sense to donate hardware and bandwidth to a charitable organization like kernel.org -- for reasons of tax deductions and because it often benefits them directly (their own cloud hosting can then benefit from a tier-1 mirror in their datacentre). So, it makes commercial sense for them to donate to kernel.org as a tax write-off as opposed to for the Linux Foundation to pay for hosting, plus they get other perks, such as getting a bit of publicity, a good standing with fellow nerds, etc. Your post is unnecessarily inflammatory and poorly informed.