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Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by jiyinyiyong »

aerique wrote: post #20
ben_bai wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$280,000 !

Well, that works :-) Never heard of Smartisan, checking out their phones now.

If you know Chinese, I will suggest you watching the videos of the release events. That's a very popular event in China since the speech skills.

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by msl09 »

dorianm wrote: post #14

So Google donated to OpenBSD from 2012 to 2015 but not in 2016 (or less than $5000), interesting. They seem to be their only long term recurrent donor. Edit: Actually they are just part of the Core Infrastructure Initiative now https://www.coreinfrastructure.org

Yeah, Microsoft donated both individually and as part of the Core Infrastructure.

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by tribaal »

jiyinyiyong wrote: post #23
aerique wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, that works :-) Never heard of Smartisan, checking out their phones now.

If you know Chinese, I will suggest you watching the videos of the release events. That's a very popular event in China since the speech skills.

I don't understand much Chinese, but here is a video of one of those events in case you want to see what jiyinyiyong is talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hPpeKPDoDg

It seems to be quite entertaining, by judging from the number of laughs/minute :)

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by toyg »

witty_username wrote: post #21
vcistan-refugee wrote: post #16

Surprise surprise, no donations from any of the big VC firms, including YC. Freeloaders.

If you're serious, then how is open source software "free" if there is an expectation of donations?

We should all strive for "Free as in freedom, not as in beer".

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by toyg »

amelius wrote: post #22

I expected Apple here, though I'm not sure what version of BSD they forked for OSX.

Apple did not "fork" anything, and certainly not OpenBSD. Their core OS (Darwin) was developed by NEXTStep. It reused chunks of the original BSD (from which FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD were all forked at one point or another) mostly for I/O interfaces, but the actual kernel architecture is very different.

AFAIK Apple are are not involved in OpenBSD at any level, nor do they donate to any OSS project; they just maintain a few selected ones.

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by toyg »

Considering few people here seems to have heard about Smartisan before this thread, I think we can agree that this sort of donation works very well for publicity among geeks.

Re: Top OpenBSD Donors

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Post by buovjaga »

icebraining wrote: post #10
aMayn wrote: post #7

Perhaps they're simply grateful for OpenSSH and for all that it enables?

Or maybe they're just mistaken...? (I'm kidding) In celebration of this milestone, Smartisan will donate approximately 3 million RMB from sales of tickets of this year's and last year's launch events to OpenSSL Software Foundation and the OpenBSD Foundation, two Android open source service organizations. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/smartisan-technology...

They donated over 300k USD to OpenSSL in 2014: https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2014-Dece...
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