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    Editing to add alt text here, as Lemmy still does not support alt text in image posts: A fake screenshot of the FreeBSD Foundation donation page showing Apple, Inc. under the $5-$24 donation category. The screenshot is next to a poorly drawn four-panel comic.

    Panel One: Title: "Apple HQ." Two people sit at a large wooden table. Person one: "We used BSD code, now it's time to contribute back." Person two: "Hold on, it's BSD licensed, right? I have an idea.

    Panel Two: Title: "FreeBSD donation pipeline" A zoomed in view of a map with a large green line connecting the USA to Europe.

    Panel Three: Three people, surrounded in a cloud of filth, scramble beneath the end of a large green pipe, reaching towards it with their wiggly stick-figure arms. One person is leaping in from out of frame. The people have bags under their eyes, many missing teeth, and are wearing sack-like clothing crudely mended with patches of random fabrics.

    Panel Four: The pale face of one of the three people beneath the end of the large green pipe, mouth open revealing their jagged yellow teeth as they attempt to catch a trickle of liquid seeping from the end of the pipe. The liquid is captioned: "$24."

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    [–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 132 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Note, this is $5-$24. Apple could have donated a whopping $5.

    [–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 24 points 1 year ago

    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.

    [–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Easy to fake and easy to research Donor Page

    [–] NathanUp@lemmy.ml 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    From 2020. Not much better, really.

    A screenshot of the FreeBSD Foundation's  donation page showing that apple donated between $250 and $499 for 2020

    [–] kirklennon@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    While that's a great answer, it's still extremely disappointing... A million is a rounding error for Apple.

    [–] PupBiru@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

    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

    [–] MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    At least it's something! Sony didn't even bother to give them a cent!

    [–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 1 year ago

    Sony: it's the thought that counts

    [–] peyotecosmico@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    $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

    [–] MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
    [–] PupBiru@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

    you’re thinking of openbsd; not freebsd

    [–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 56 points 1 year ago

    blackberry donated $10000-24,999 to freeBSD

    Blackberry gave more money

    sauce

    [–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

    It's definitely not 25$ but it is in the 250$ category, which is still pathetic, granted they're a 3 trillion dollar company

    [–] s_s@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    If you really wanted them to give back, you could have just used the GPL. 😂 😅

    [–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Then they would have developed their own like windows. I'd call it apple core if it was the late 80s early 90s

    [–] radiohead37@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    And they will still claim a tax deduction.

    [–] Rolando@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

    In Ireland.

    [–] pizzaiolo 11 points 1 year ago

    Maybe it's just a user using Apple Inc as a pseudonym

    [–] Moc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

    Chevron swinging the big money around

    [–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I have noticed a disturbing lack of "cuck license" copypasta in the comments.

    [–] Rooty@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

    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.

    [–] milady@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    No, Apple donated $5 not $24

    [–] const_void@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago