CLAIM-2026-08-19-04
The Linux Foundation's formation release names 47 members across three tiers: 8 platinum (Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI), 18 gold and 21 silver.
Why it matters
The only membership figure with a primary source behind it. Anything quoted as a starting number should be checked against this one.
Sources
- linuxfounda2025linux