FreeBSD Foundation Receives Another $500,000 USD Gift

[Azrael5]

freebsd is hard used as server operating system.

[aht0]

Of course this not Sony. Billions cash earned thanks to BSD, 0 cent back.

I remember checking Sony's financial reports for recent fiscal years some time a go. Net profit was negative. Another dude with "Sony is evil" delusions. Net profit means what you have left after counting in your obligations and liabilities. When you are running into negative it means "no profit".

And there is hell of a good reason why console platform must stay closed-source.

[wizard69]

So if they hadn't gotten this donation they would have missed their funding goal for the year by roughly $200.000? I guess that qualifies as a close call...

Still, I wonder who would have this much money available for donations and a good enough reason to donate that much to the project? Sony? Because they'd probably have to spend considerably more moving their future consoles onto a new base OS if FreeBSD crashed and burned.

Apple possibly.

[wizard69]

Most importantly, why not you? :P



Defense firm or some military. Rich people tend to have equally sized egos so staying anonymous is not usually an option they would voluntarily choose. IT firm which does not want PR mess or multitude of assumptions made from donations (MS?).Tax deduction could also be reason.

Err this is a lot of bullshit. The vast majority of people with money donate anonymously. It is a rather small minority that make donations public to stroke their own egos.

[L_A_G]

Apple possibly.

Probably not... When they contribute to open source it's usually trough new code and they don't have any real reason to contribute to an OS they don't even use.

Sure, Apple used some of FreeBSD's networking code when they first created OSX in the mid-late 90's, but most of the shared/similar code comes from the fact that OSX and FreeBSD are both derivatives of regular BSD (the precursor to OSX, NeXTSTEP, being forked in the mid-late 80's and FreeBSD in 1993).

[Passso]

I remember checking Sony's financial reports for recent fiscal years some time a go. Net profit was negative. Another dude with "Sony is evil" delusions. Net profit means what you have left after counting in your obligations and liabilities. When you are running into negative it means "no profit".

And there is hell of a good reason why console platform must stay closed-source.

Well, do you know why they make no profit ? Because they spend billions into exclusive titles/time exclusivity/exclusive dlc to kill Microsoft.

By the way, the console market is not that bad for Sony, the other branches are pulling them down.

[aht0]

Err this is a lot of bullshit. The vast majority of people with money donate anonymously. It is a rather small minority that make donations public to stroke their own egos.

Behaviour of the rich depends a lot of the nature of society, culture and State. If your country is stable, written law is above some Top Man's and his circle of buddies say-so, then yes, rich people can allow being un-visible and have small egos. Most of the world is developing or undeveloped, different and pushing egos is rather norm than not.

More byzantine the internal dynamics and nature of the culture/country/society, more you'd have to have good contacts, friends, acquaintances. Being flashy could be sort of survival trait unless you are close enough to the Top. Good enough contacts could push back and apply counter-pressure to hostile attacks or take-over attempts from person(s) located higher in the power structure. Unless such power structure made-out of people being kin to each-other it's a bunch of wolf packs.
There is a good reason why Slavic riches have huge villas, yachts and all sorts of extravaganca when Finnish rich may drive around in 20years old Opel Astra, despite making multiple millions of euros in a single month and live in rather modest home.

Imagine having a party and dropping casual piece of information that you threw half a million donation to some obscure thing. It's like throwing away money which means you have shitload of it and it does create needed additional impression.

[starshipeleven]

I remember checking Sony's financial reports for recent fiscal years some time a go. Net profit was negative. Another dude with "Sony is evil" delusions. Net profit means what you have left after counting in your obligations and liabilities. When you are running into negative it means "no profit".

And there is hell of a good reason why console platform must stay closed-source.

Sony is a rather large conglomerate doing just a bit more than only consoles, and having no net profit overall does not cancel the fact that they made and still make tons of cash over playstations using a FreeBSD derivative (Passso's claims).

[aht0]

Sony is a rather large conglomerate doing just a bit more than only consoles, and having no net profit overall does not cancel the fact that they made and still make tons of cash over playstations using a FreeBSD derivative (Passso's claims).

So?

You are trying to apply your own Christian moral values on a corporation which does not have workers/leadership with such upbringing. Japanese CEO does not feel least moral obligation for "I take'th, I must give back too". They are not Christians to begin with. All they usually care about is Japan, their Emperor and for their corporation. Exact order may differ. Their similarity with Christians starts and ends with work-ethics which is actually more single-minded and purposeful. Nothing else really compares. Reading Japanese literature might help you understand the differences in their world-view. And stop expecting the non-natural.

It's as stupid as right-wing liberals expecting Christian behaviour from Islamics. Fact is, Qu'ran tells them it's perfectly okay to deceive the unbelievers, it's okay to live and take money from unbelievers (look up term "jizya") and it's not good for a true-believer to work for unbeliever. And super-optimistic expectations of "we helped them, we fed them, soon they start contributing back" leads where? nowhere.

[wikinevick]

I didn't even know FreeBSD had full time developers...

You don't know nothin Jon Snow.