Note, this is $5-$24. Apple could have donated a whopping $5.
It'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 fake and easy to research Donor Page
From 2020. Not much better, really.
Apple 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.
sure, 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
At least it's something! Sony didn't even bother to give them a cent!
Sony: it's the thought that counts
$250–$499... Good thing there's 4 and a ½ months to donate more since they made the backbone of their systems.
I'm sure they will. /s
Meanwhile Sony:
you’re thinking of openbsd; not freebsd
Blackberry gave more money
It's definitely not 25$ but it is in the 250$ category, which is still pathetic, granted they're a 3 trillion dollar company
If you really wanted them to give back, you could have just used the GPL. 😂 😅
Then they would have developed their own like windows. I'd call it apple core if it was the late 80s early 90s
And they will still claim a tax deduction.
In Ireland.
Maybe it's just a user using Apple Inc as a pseudonym
I 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.
Chevron swinging the big money around
I don't get it
No, Apple donated $5 not $24
lol Brave
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