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But there are many other "Big Corps" specified on the FreeBSD portal. Aren't they obligated in some form or the other to be funding FreeBSD? 500k appears to be
by RaSoJo 14y ago
But there are many other "Big Corps" specified on the FreeBSD portal. Aren't they obligated in some form or the other to be funding FreeBSD?
500k appears to be quite a nominal amount when you put all these "Big Corp" names together. Or is this fund raising set apart from what the "Big Corps" pay?
Not sure how this works...
- profquail 14y agoThe 'Donors' page on the FreeBSD Foundation website shows both corporate and individual sponsors (and roughly, the amount donated): http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml Sadly, the number of corporate ($$$) donors has dropped off in the last couple of years...
- dewarrn1 14y agoNetflix is conspicuously absent, for one. https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/software
- cpeterso 14y agoI see Google on the list of corporate sponsors. Do any Google services use FreeBSD?
- gillianseed 14y agoGiven how large Google is I'm certain they use FreeBSD in some form somewhere. Still it's kind of fun seeing Google who is predominantly Linux-based as a major sponsor and not Apple which likely ship code from the FreeBSD project in every device they sell. Also nice seeing Juniper contributing back but I can't see anything from Cisco...
- emaste 14y agoA number of donations typically come in late in the year - it's really not possible to draw year-over-year conclusions until the year's over.
- pjmlp 14y agoMost corporations are leechers, they just take open source stuff as a way to save costs, without returning anything back. I have seen this happen in many Fortune 500 projects.