WhatsApp is completely absent from FreeBSD development. The donations from Jan Koum have been from his personal finances. In kind, it's a shame FB/WhatsApp do

WhatsApp is completely absent from FreeBSD development. The donations from Jan Koum have been from his personal finances. In kind, it's a shame FB/WhatsApp don't do development. And while the FreeBSD Foundation provides governance and services around the periphery including a couple full timer contributors, almost all significant code contributions are coming from a small quorum of commercial users. If Intel follows through on higher quality and more timely HW enablement, that is going to be a lot more worthwhile than this donation. NF was able to leverage some connections built over several people's careers to wake Intel up to the extant market share of FreeBSD users. By my naive estimation this is approaching $1B/yr. The other conjecture I will offer is that Intel may see any of AMD Naples, ARM64, OpenPOWER as a realistic threats now and dots were connected between Intel's marketing driven culture and Intel's software services group which has a mission to make sure software runs best on Intel.