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Doesn't hold up today: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationType=individual&donationYear=2026
~~2013: $5-$24 ? (assuming the comic image is 20 years after the foundation was started in 1993)~~
2018: $1000-$4999
2019: $1000-$4999
2020: $250-$499
2021: $1000-$4999
2022: $1000-$4999
2023: $100-$249
2024: $500-$999
2025: $200-$499
2026: $1000-$4999
I expected better, internet.
Though even at $5k it'd be 38 parts per billion of their annual profit.
Edit: As per replies this was from long ago (2013?) and is no longer on the FreeBSD site.
Edit2: The most recent Wayback Machine capture was 2020 when Apple gave $0
Edit3: Looks like other captures are there also and 2020 was an anomaly.
Edit4: The amounts per year change in Wayback captures so the OP image may have been true at some point, but was not the final total for any one year. Maybe it's some employee matching program that adds many small amounts over the course of a year.
Meh. They could donate $1 million per year and not miss it.
Using PPB as a bloody measurement for that is diabolical
also as another commenter said, apple had a donation matching program so could possibly have been some employee donated $20 and apple matched it
~~also also, osx is based on openbsd; not freebsd so id expect them to donate maybe to kernel development and the actual distro itβs based on rather than a random other one~~
This is the first time I've heard this, and I couldn't find any sources for it. Everything I've ever read indicated they based off of Mach and FreeBSD. I'd love to see sources to the contrary.
ah youβre totally right! idk where i got that from: iβve thought openbsd for yeeeeeears
It's cool. I don't know why more people don't use the BSDs as a basis for a project. Depending on what you're doing just starting with a UNIX like OS means there's time to pivot if you're not writing drivers for specific hardware. I'll never understand why people use Windows for that kind of thing.
The BSD's are easy to get mixed up tbh
Yeah, it's taken from FreeBSD.
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu
Any OpenBSD references are related to things like documentation and the "pf" firewall, which FreeBSD imported from OpenBSD to begin with.
It's an old picture, header image says "20th Anniversary", and FreeBSD has been around since 1993.
The FreeBSD Foundation celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2020. I already checked the 2018β2026 donations and didn't find the one shown in the OP. (Edit: I actually did. See comment below. It's from 2021 and is real.)
There's no way that screenshot was taken on a 2013 phone though
It's real. See my comment below explaining what happened, namely that it's from early 2021. I suggest editing your comment, as you only checked the years this wouldn't possibly apply to (the screenshot was made pre-2024).
Edited. I found receipts back to 2018 but I can't see any earlier records.
This was not from 2013. This screenshot was provably from 2021, specifically anywhere from January 17th to March 27th. The FreeBSD Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2020 (press release from December 21st, 2020, here). The person who said it was from 2013 wrongly assumed that the logo (upper-left of the screenshot) was referencing the 20th anniversary of FreeBSD itself and not the FreeBSD Foundation.
The reason it's so low is that 1) this is kept track of throughout the year, and 2) it was a matched donation or donations. Thus, Apple matched donations throughout the year, eventually amounting to $1000β4999, but at the point this screenshot was taken (early in the year), they were only between $5β24.
Please read my comment below explaining this. You've accidentally edited more misinformation into your comment in trying to be more thorough.
Yeah, I was sceptical of the 1993 + 20. Do you have a capture that shows this? This one has the 20th anniversary banner but Apple doesn't appear at all in that capture for 2020. I think these pages have changed over the course of the years. There may well be one as per the comic, but it's not easy to find.