Linux Foundation Director uses Mac OS X, announces “Linux desktop year”

Last week, the annual Open Source Summit event was hosted by The Linux Foundation, a non-profit organization. Its leader, Jim Zemlin, made a report declaring 2017 “the year of Linux on desktops,” but the incident noticed by visitors was that this was done with a presentation running on Mac OS X.

At this point, disputes begin on various topics:

• “After all, the equipment for conferences is being made by some third-party company, and they have their own established schemes”;
• “He is just the head (not even an engineer) of an organization that, moreover, does not develop the software that is needed directly for these tasks”
• “The Linux Foundation is not an FSF, so what's the difference, what does it use?” ...

However, for me ( and not only me ), it is 100% doubtful that an organization whose main mission is to popularize Linux does not demonstrate what is promoting by its example. Nuances and accidents, of course, are also possible, but:

1. this is not the first time that the famous Linux developer Matthew Garrett wrote 4 years ago that Jim used Mac OS X back then;
2. to questions / comments from Twitter users on how this happened, Jim decided to remain silent (more than a week has passed) .

So I created an online petition calling on The Linux Foundation and Jim Zemlin to do two things:

1. Publish an official statement about why this happened and what the organization generally thinks about the actual use of Linux by its public figures (especially in the year “Linux on desktops”).
2. Responsibly relate to the main software used at official events of an organization promoting Open Source.