Maybe the Linux Foundation doesn't need any community

What with all the talk about the need for community in open source, it's a bit cheeky that the Linux Foundation managed to elect a board of directors without a single lay member of the Linux community on it, perhaps Mark Shuttleworth excepted. (Mark does a good job of walking the line between corporate and community.)

Is this a problem? Probably not, because I doubt the Linux Foundation will be more productive than the FSG or OSDL were (both did almost nothing useful). And no, I'm not naive - I know that corporations do the bulk of Linux development.

But if that's true, where is Red Hat on the list? It is, after all, the the Number One contributor to the Linux kernel by a long ways. Nowhere. Why? Because Red Hat never did give much money to OSDL, and it's money that buys you a seat at this Linux table, not contributions to the kernel.

Is this what open source is all about?