An interesting bit of that is how small the cash donations are in absolute terms! Keep in mind that those are lower bounds based on which "donation bracket" th

An interesting bit of that is how small the cash donations are in absolute terms! Keep in mind that those are lower bounds based on which "donation bracket" they fell into. I know there was at least one case where a company donated $200k (which fell into the $100-250k bracket). measuring contributions to FreeBSD is maybe better done in developer time Yes. But that's harder to measure, of course. Also keep in mind that the FreeBSD Foundation != the FreeBSD Project; it is only in the past couple of years that the Foundation has had enough money to hire ongoing engineering staff. For a long time their budget went to project infrastructure and self-contained projects proposed by individual developers.