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Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released by iiv on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @04:50AM (#14854534)
Both Netflix and Whatsapp has donated. I could not find any source that Nintendo or Sony donated, though.
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Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released by harry8 on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:14AM (#14854662)
Was it a token gift redolent in condescension or was it actually something approximating some meaningful fraction of the opportunity cost of having selected something else other than the BSD project as a supplier?

Cynicism would say the former but I'd be delighted if I were wrong.

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Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released by bidouilliste on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @05:17AM (#14854678)
Whatsapp donated 1 million dollars two years ago and 500000 dollars last year iirc. For Netflix I don't know but they employ a lot of FreeBSD devs and upstream all their work.
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Re:FreeBSD 11.1 released by danieldk on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @06:32AM (#14855028)
I think Jan Koum personally donated 1 million:

http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.de/2014/11/freebsd-foundat...

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/foundation-announces-...

Of course, that is completely awesome!

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