Linux Foundation Pours $200,000 into R language

The original title is "Money talks: Linux Foundation pours funds into R language".

What is the Linux Foundation doing funding the R Consortium? R _can run on_ Linux, but it really has nothing directly to do with Linux per se.

And this isn't the first time I remember thinking, "What in the world is the Linux Foundation doing with _that_??" They're also funding the development of a real-time OS kernel for IoT devices.[1] Just feels like their mission is creeping, creeping....

[1]: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2016...