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I'm surprised at what seem like quite low corporate partnerships https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationTyp... - the biggest partner being facebook with <50k? Given FreeBSD's ubiquity one might expect some company somewhere having more money for them. Well, they're clearly getting by just fine as well, but I am nonetheless surprised!

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A lot of companies fund development directly, which one can see in the commit logs: Netflix, NetApp, Dell-EMC Isilon, Mellanox/Nvidia, Rubicon/Netgate, Yandex, iXsystems, etc. Facebook hired the guy who wrote jemalloc, which started in FreeBSD originally.

Doing a search for "Sponsored by" would give plenty of results over the years.

The Foundation helps with other things besides code, like infrastructure (though they hire developers too: emaste@ is doing a bunch of sponsored work given recent commits).

Linus remarked that you can see a pretty regular 9-5 pattern in the kernel commit logs quite a long time ago now

Yep, Apple has hired plenty of FreeBSD developers. Even Jordan K Hubbard worked at Apple!

>Even Jordan K Hubbard worked at Apple!

That was quite some time ago and he is now working in Nvidia. I am sure Apple has plenty of people working on open source for things like LLVM. I am just wondering if they have any on FreeBSD.

Yes, he's worked quite a few places.

I could ask him about nvidia but I'm pretty sure he couldn't actually tell me sadly.

That's just 2021- check back at 2020 and you'll find a couple more.

If anyone's curious, Apple also donated $250–$499 in 2020.

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