NathanUpNot technically linux...
Mossy Feathers (She/Her)Note, this is $5-$24. Apple could have donated a whopping $5.
TenthrowIt’s fake
I’m aware, simply from the standpoint that a donation that small probably wouldn’t be considered worth the company’s time. Also Chevron being there is another giveaway.
Easy to research Donor Page
From 2021. Not much better, really.
bob_wileyThey are listed there for 2023 as well.
kirklennonApple offers to match donations from employees so this is a case of an employee making a small donation and Apple matching it rather than Apple explicitly choosing to make a tiny donation itself.
While that’s a great answer, it’s still extremely disappointing… A million is a rounding error for Apple.
PupBirusure, but a $1m over how many causes? i’d assume they don’t really even use freebsd, considering macos was based in openbsd? so i’d suggest that an employee match is pretty decent
MazonnaCara89At least it’s something!
Sony didn’t even bother to give them a cent!
redcalciumSony: it’s the thought that counts
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻$250–$499… Good thing there’s 4 and a ½ months to donate more since they made the backbone of their systems.
I’m sure they will. /s
Mean while Sony:
It looks like they did under the “PlayStation Cares” name, in the $499-$999 bracket. Probs an employee match thing.
you’re thinking of openbsd; not freebsd
Easy to fake and easy to research
And they will still claim a tax deduction.
In Ireland.
Chevron swinging the big money around
lol Brave
It’s definitely not 25$ but it is in the 250$ category, which is still pathetic, granted they’re a 3 trillion dollar company
Maybe it’s just a user using Apple Inc as a pseudonym
s_sIf you really wanted them to give back, you could have just used the GPL. 😂
Then they would have developed their own like windows.
Blackberry gave more money
joneskindImagine contributing by making macOS /iOS/tvOS/watchOS/visionOS kernel Open Source and still have a bunch of losers raging on.
Imagine having invented so many GUI tools that every fucking Linux distribution is copying and still raging on that one day Apple integrated Spaces without specifying they took it from Linux.
Imagine raging on “Apple sherlocking bad” while every fucking Open Source application is a pale copy of a proprietary one.
Imagine raging on Apple from a Google phone or a Dell laptop running Windows on dual boot because “gaming”
So many things to imagine when you think about it
Imagine having a raging hard-on for another corporation that doesn’t give two fucks about you
prettydarknwildman it’s just a megacorporation chill out, they don’t need to be defended by you or anyone they already pay law firms to do it
Imagine pushing off valid criticism of a mega corp with whataboutism.
laughs in Graphene OS and EndeavourOS single boot
obligatory NixOS Shill Post
HolzkohlenI have noticed a disturbing lack of “cuck license” copypasta in the comments.
Ask and ye shall recieve:
I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than writing BSD-licensed software. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are designing, programming, debugging and distributing a piece of software for any number of years solely so it can go and get used in proprietary projects by corporations. All the hard work you put into your beautiful software - writing good documentation, making optimizations, making sure it runs well on other machines, formatting it, troubleshooting it. All of it has one simple result: its codebase is more enjoyable for proprietary projects.
Wrote the perfect software? Great. Who benefits? If you’re lucky, a random corporation who had nothing to do with the way it was developed, who uses it. That corporation gets to use it in spyware and DRM, like Minix and IME. It gets the benefits of the software’s innovation and optimization that came from the way you programmed it.
As a programmer who writes BSD-licensed software, you are LITERALLY dedicating however many years of your life simply to program software for proprietary corporate/government projects to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.
MiladyI don’t get it
Apple, a highly successful multibillionaire company, only donates 24$ to FreeBSD, which they base their systems on. An amount that other individuals have donated.
Whether this is recurring our one time I don’t know, but it seems to be one time.
Whether this is recurring our one time I don’t know, but it seems to be one time.
Chemical WonkaI really appreciated the humor of the devs to show Apple as a 5 dollar donor.
No, Apple.donated $5 not $24