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Re:Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vuln... by na85 on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:09AM (#16041050)
Meh, I think they do in fact contribute. It's just that they don't contribute to an acceptable degree. If FreeBSD is as indispensable to these corps as OP implies, they should be contributing to a level enough to make FreeBSD financially secure.

What's scummy about Facebook is the way Zuckerberg pushes the message that privacy is dead while using the money he made selling my privacy to buy all the mansions around his so that he can protect his own privacy.

But that's for another thread: I'm interested in why FreeBSD isn't receiving the financial support it seems to require from the corps that are leeching off volunteers to pad their profit margins.

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Re:Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vuln... by ianai on Sunday December 31, 2017 @11:53AM (#16041251)
Well. To be sure, it would be awful messaging for the organizations to run that message. If they alienate FB or Netflix then they could lose much more than they realize (as apparently some donations are done anonymously).
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