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A lot of companies fund development directly, which one can see in the commit logs: Netflix, NetApp, Dell-EMC Isilon, Mellanox/Nvidia, Rubicon/Netgate, Yandex,
by throw0101a 6y ago
A lot of companies fund development directly, which one can see in the commit logs: Netflix, NetApp, Dell-EMC Isilon, Mellanox/Nvidia, Rubicon/Netgate, Yandex, iXsystems, etc. Facebook hired the guy who wrote jemalloc, which started in FreeBSD originally.
Doing a search for "Sponsored by" would give plenty of results over the years.
The Foundation helps with other things besides code, like infrastructure (though they hire developers too: emaste@ is doing a bunch of sponsored work given recent commits).
- mhh__ 6y agoLinus remarked that you can see a pretty regular 9-5 pattern in the kernel commit logs quite a long time ago now
- bifrost 6y agoYep, Apple has hired plenty of FreeBSD developers. Even Jordan K Hubbard worked at Apple!
- ksec 6y ago>Even Jordan K Hubbard worked at Apple! That was quite some time ago and he is now working in Nvidia. I am sure Apple has plenty of people working on open source for things like LLVM. I am just wondering if they have any on FreeBSD.
- bifrost 6y agoYes, he's worked quite a few places. I could ask him about nvidia but I'm pretty sure he couldn't actually tell me sadly.