The Linux Credit Card

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/offerings/linux-credit-card

by robinhoodexe • 10 years ago

86 37 10 years ago

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mgiannopoulos• 10 years ago

> A percentage of every purchase made on your Linux Foundation credit card goes back to Linux Foundation <<

Would be nice if they actually mentioned what that percentage is exactly.

grenoire• 10 years ago

I am quite certain that they are not able to disclose that according to their partnership.

arfrank• 10 years ago

Industry standard is about 10 BPS for affinity programs and a bounty for acquiring customers for the bank. No rewards program might make this one higher, maybe 70-110 but none more.

A better plan if you wanted to support Linux would be 2% cashback card that you donate all rewards to Linux.

cmurf• 10 years ago

A an even better plant would be for the issuer to give 2% to the Linux Foundation (or any other non-profit of choice or even a mix), without making the merchant pay for it. The issuers are awash in money.

emilyfm• 10 years ago

For affinity cards from this company (UMB/Cardpartner) it's typically 0.3%.

Source: https://www.owasp.org/images/0/08/CardPartner_Kit.pdf

meesterdude5• 10 years ago

awesome, great sleuthing!

I'm curious what kind of return the linux foundation can get from this, out in the world.

JamilD• 10 years ago

0.3%?! It'd far more effective to get a 2% cash back rewards card like the Double Cash, and donate the money to the Linux Foundation.

Jdam• 10 years ago

If it just had no Tux on it.

https://piss.io/how-tux-the-penguin-ruined-it-for-linux-8b22...

meesterdude5• 10 years ago

I like Tux and am glad its on the credit card; he's the Linux mascot and it wouldn't be the same without him.

Also, that blog post is full of needless profanity and hate. If you wanted to present some kind of reasoned argument against tux being on the card, that was not it.

umanwizard• 10 years ago

Linux isn't even close to "ruined". It's extremely useful and in widespread, nearly ubiquitous use for a variety of uses.

It's not a "failure" that GNU/Linux isn't widely used on the desktop. As a fan of UNIX operating systems and open-source software, I don't even really care -- and in fact think Windows is naturally superior for that use case. Microsoft has a structural advantage that enables them to be better at putting out a desktop OS than the open-source community.

Why do so many people think the mark of GNU/Linux's success is whether it's used as a desktop OS by non-technical consumers? Best tool for the job, and all that.

Edit: Just saw that this was written by Jon Hendren (aka @fart on twitter), who can best be described as a comedian. So, this article is probably just trolling anyway.

Scuds• 10 years ago

If I cared about what people who spend too much time on message boards thought, I'd never get anything done. Too much credence is to the comment section.

davedunkin• 10 years ago

I had one of these 15 years ago. I got a "cute penguin" comment almost every time I used it.

meesterdude5• 10 years ago

really? now I want one!

donretag• 10 years ago

Same here. I believe it was via linuxstart.com

matt-tingen• 10 years ago

Why not just get a card with 1.5% cash back or more and make a donation? The Foundation would get more and it's tax deductible for the cardholder.

meesterdude5• 10 years ago

You certainly could, but the downside is they are decoupled. With this card, every purchase is coupled with money going to the linux foundation.

It might be less than what you could earn/donate elsewhere, but it gives them an additional source of recurring revenue that they can plan against.

digi_owl• 10 years ago

I always find it eyebrow raising to check the corporate membership list, and see Suse sitting as Gold member while Red Hat is down in Silver.

boomboomsubban2• 10 years ago

Red Hat would rather use that ~$80,000 to hire another kernel developer, the member ranks are just about political clout.

pekk• 10 years ago

Because Red Hat never does anything that is about political clout?

kahrkunne• 10 years ago

Or 10,000 man-hours worth of systemd shills (just kidding, they do it for free)

Red Hat spends plenty of money on political clout, just not this specific clout

aratno• 10 years ago

Why would they donate money for corporate sponsorship ranks if they're already donating so much code? Honest question. I thought they were the second largest contributor to the kernel code base after Intel.

meesterdude5• 10 years ago

I'm moving all my banking away from Wells Fargo because of their involvement with the north dakota access pipeline, and this will be a great replacement for my CC!

gravypod• 10 years ago

Sadly I'm a student and haven't started a line of credit. I'd love to buy one of these but I'd definetly not be allowed.

markwaldron• 10 years ago

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linuxkerneldev• 10 years ago

Would be nice if we could find out what percentage of the total Linux Foundations donations, payments from member companies and members actually go to the people making useful contributions to Linux developers and related technologies/tool developers, as opposed to "management retreats".

feld• 10 years ago

I used to have the FreeBSD version of this card. I never knew how much was being donated, which was disappointing.

korzun2• 10 years ago

I'm holding out for a Docker card.

minitech2• 10 years ago

Why would you donate money to a business that, you know, sells products?

empath75• 10 years ago

I love Linux as much as the next sysadmin, but given how central it is to the bottom lines of so many corporations, there's no way I'm going to donate to it as an individual. Let the companies that profit from it fund it.

arielm2• 10 years ago

I think that's a pretty misguided statement. If you _can_ donate you should. Imagine having to deal with any other platform...

The more people (and companies) donate the better we're all off IMO.

mjburgess• 10 years ago

If he can donate to this, he can donate to everything. The "if can, should" principle would have him exhausted of money on much more worthwhile charities long before he'd get round to linux.

What he's saying is that linux is part of a sustainable economic system from which companies profile, so that (now) it does not require individual charitable contributions.

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