God that's fucking funny
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Hmm I don't see Sony on that list either...
I heard rumors that sony does contribute back to FreeBSD, but privately.
https://safereddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/ut1dd6/how_much_did_sony_contribute_to_the_freebsd/
Or at least some employees do. At some companies it happens unofficially because the company actively forbids or requires an onerous approval process to contribute to open source.
I get a bit ticked off that companies get credit for contribution or projects and the individuals actively behind those contributions and projects are largely uncredited, especially when it only happens against the wishes of the company, that retroactively decides it's good press to take credit for their employees' work.
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~~
also, osx is based on openbsd; not freebsd
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).
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Edit 3: This is not edited but rather a real screenshot from early 2021.
- Alexander Tharapos only shows up in 2021. David Choi is also in the $5β24 bracket.
- Donations accrue throughout the year. Here's one snapshot from late March 2021 showing Apple far below where they were at year's end.
- The FreeBSD Foundation's 20th anniversary was in 2020, hence the logo.
- However, this was after mid-January, as we have an archive from then when Apple Inc. wasn't on the donor list yet.
- Apple was in the $1000β$4999 range by year's end.
This also comports with @RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip's note about the donation matching program. A small automatic donation like this would make sense.
What's more likely?
- Apple, Inc. noticed and went out of their way to donate β but an amount so inconsequential that it damages their brand image and probably, due to labor overhead, cost them more to donate than the amount actually donated.
- You can donate under whatever name you want, and someone just made their name "Apple Inc." as a joke.
Edit: I checked the donors, and while I couldn't go back farther than 2024 (even by changing the URL param), none of them were $5β24.
Edit 2: I went back to 2018 via the Wayback Machine and still couldn't find this. I guess it's possible it happened before this, but given every single year seems to be in the hundreds to thousands range and given a $25 donation by a company like Apple would be pissing money into the void, this seems dubious.
It's also possible an Apple employee did the donation.
In most enterprise places I've worked at (as a software engineer), we've had a small discretionary budget we could allocate every year (or 3/6 months) to donate to OSS we've relied on. This would usually be a small budget, per team (last time it was Β£100 a year), and sometimes it had to be allocated based on how big a part it plays in my specific team's work.
So I see it as quite plausible that a team got a budget for such donations, and since BSD made up part of the work, they had part of that budget allocated and donated.
Unfortunately with big corps it's hard to properly align between teams when it comes to bureaucratic BS, so it's even possible that Apple donated under dozens of names because yay, red tape if you want to do it the right way.
a $25 donation by a company like Apple would be pissing money into the void, this seems dubious.
The US gave $150 in foreign aid to Switzerland in 2025.
If you bother to scroll all the way down, you see this was "waived cost of training" for somebody presumably from a Swiss NGO.
Just gave it as an example to see that transfers of small sums can come from huge entities and there are typically mundane explanations for it.
God I wish people would ask the "what's more likely" question on important issues. This kind of critical thinking has fallen off so hard.
To be fair, my two assumed possibilities were both wrong.
Still, your heuristics are good
It probably was $5 (?)
It was likely a matched donation. See my comment below explaining how this screenshot came to be (the screenshot is real and was taken sometime between mid-January to late March 2021) and @RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip's comment showing the donation policy.
The comment by @Morphit@feddit.uk below is wrong and isn't even examining the relevant years (although it does correctly explore the spirit of the original post, which is that this is chump change for Apple regardless).
If this is real, it was likely under Apples donation matching program. If a Apple employee donates 20$ Apple (in the past at least) also donates 20$. https://forms.matchinggifts.com/AppleGuide.pdf
Damn, this makes sense. You have quenched my anger.
You don't understand, it's a homeopathic donation!
Bruh is that real? Seems really embarrassing to me lmao
Wager there's a lot of room for this to happen, a popular thing in companies to show they care is a pledge to match up to some nominal amount donated by employees to the same cause.
I do wonder if some of these companies attach a "don't credit us" clause, since they are leaving it to the employees to pick causes, they might not want to get associated with a cause just at the whim of a random employee.
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Apple ewww
At least they also got a donation from Chevron
Tax avoidance
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