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Worth noting that Facebook and Google are both silver contributors. === http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/con
by Systemic33 11y ago
Worth noting that Facebook and Google are both silver contributors.
=== http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html ===
For 2015 The OpenBSD Foundation will recognize donors in the following categories based on contribution amount.
On request we will provide a link to your website for donations of $5000 or more, and display your logo for donations of $10,000 or more.
Iridium: $100,000 to $250,000
Platinum: $50,000 to $100,000
Gold: $25,000 to $50,000
Microsoft Corporation
Silver: $10,000 to $25,000
Facebook Inc.
Google Inc.
Bronze: $5,000 to $10,000
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- liviu- 11y agoAlso, Google has been donating every year since (at least) 2012, when OpenBSD started to make the donors list public.
- brynet 11y agoDonations to the project have also been public for many years: http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html http://www.openbsd.org/donations.html
- philip1209 11y agoOut of curiosity, do they appear as donors so often due to corporate initiatives or employee gift matching?
- peatmoss 11y ago25-50k is generous, but won't float the project. I'll take this as a reminder to send some meager grad-student dollars their way.
- mjcohen 11y agoHow much for these levels: Vibranium Adamantium Unobtanium
- hackuser 11y agoGold: $25,000 to $50,000 Microsoft Corporation Silver: $10,000 to $25,000 Facebook Inc. Google Inc. Arguably these are small amounts for all three companies, but what is the best way to calculate a fair share - not just for large companies but for anyone? For example, * How much does OpenBSD need? * How much does each company benefit from OpenBSD's work? * How much would it cost to license the software if it were proprietary? How much would it cost to build and maintain it in-house?
- moviuro 11y agoSome info here: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2015.html http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2015.html
- seiji 11y agoThose are hilariously small numbers. The accounting departments of those companies probably wouldn't even blink if one extra zero were added to the end. If you're funding open source products like this, companies should fund at least 3-5 full time senior engineer salaries per year. We should praise "donating" $3 million to $10 million per year. Anything less is a joke seeing these amounts are from multi-billion dollar companies built on free software. Imagine you lived next to a free buffet that only accepted donations. You ate there every day of the year, saved thousands of dollars over buying and making your own food, then thought you were being "generous" by dropping them a tenner at Christmas. Also, you're a full time tech employee who cashed out millions in stock and have several million dollar apartments in cities around the world. But, sure, you're generous by dropping them $10.
- cmurf 11y agoWhile I agree this is pocket change, at least these companies are putting in something. And Microsoft has become a top Linux kernel contributor, and Google, Facebook do hire full time programmers that work on Linux as well (and possibly BSD). My question is, where's Apple?
- tyho 11y agoYou don't get to be a successful company if your accounting department doesn't blink if there are zeros appearing on invoices.
- ForHackernews 11y agoWho would have guessed 10 years ago that in 2015, Microsoft would be a bigger supporter of a FLOSS project than Google?
- alecco 11y agoMicrosoft loves BSD/Apache/MIT licensed software. Free stuff and no serious competition can evolve out of those projects.
- Aldo_MX 11y agoAll the spectrum of software gets better thanks to BSD/Apache/MIT licensed software, so who wouldn't love it?
- elektromekatron 11y ago.no serious competition can evolve out of those projects BSD + Mach > NeXTSTEP > OSX
- outworlder 11y agoWe could recalculate the donation amounts in pizzas + diet coke. How long was the pizza+coke runway extended by these donations? Because these aren't enough to cover salaries, so it's logical that's going to be used for pizza.