None of the foundations are working towards their purpose. I don’t see FSF advocating vehemently for libre office or Linux Foundation asking people to install linux on their desktops. Only the community is doing the efforts, people are advocating open source themselves, not any foundation.
But they do though. You’re aware that the whole GNU project including C compiler is under FSF, right? FSF is also funding free software education through free resources, public talks and so on.
Linux Foundation is not linux desktop foundation, their goal is attract corporations to use linux kernel. What you’re looking for here is Gnome and KDE foundations which are doing amazing work.
I don’t see FSF advocating vehemently for libre office
Actually the FSF does advocate for prominent free software apps, including LibreOffice. But the point of the FSF is to advocate for the free software movement in general, not specific projects. I agree, you should support specific projects by actually supporting those projects directly; that’s not the place of the FSF and one should not donate to FSF with the expectation that it’s going towards LibreOffice or some other project.
There’s more to the free software world than individual projects, and more to the free software world than developers.
(Edit: Not to mention, that open source and free software are distinct philosophies, and one of the things the FSF has to do is explain the difference. Of course, you are not helping “open source” by supporting the FSF because the FSF is not an open source advocacy organization)
None of the foundations are working towards their purpose. I don’t see FSF advocating vehemently for libre office or Linux Foundation asking people to install linux on their desktops. Only the community is doing the efforts, people are advocating open source themselves, not any foundation.
But they do though. You’re aware that the whole GNU project including C compiler is under FSF, right? FSF is also funding free software education through free resources, public talks and so on.
Linux Foundation is not linux desktop foundation, their goal is attract corporations to use linux kernel. What you’re looking for here is Gnome and KDE foundations which are doing amazing work.
Foundations are about strength in numbers.
Actually the FSF does advocate for prominent free software apps, including LibreOffice. But the point of the FSF is to advocate for the free software movement in general, not specific projects. I agree, you should support specific projects by actually supporting those projects directly; that’s not the place of the FSF and one should not donate to FSF with the expectation that it’s going towards LibreOffice or some other project.
There’s more to the free software world than individual projects, and more to the free software world than developers.
(Edit: Not to mention, that open source and free software are distinct philosophies, and one of the things the FSF has to do is explain the difference. Of course, you are not helping “open source” by supporting the FSF because the FSF is not an open source advocacy organization)