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$500k? When are they going to get serious?
And if you happen to have a "paltry" $500k sitting around, feel free to send it in FreeBSD's direction. :-)
$500k? When are they going to get serious?
Edit: As is also mentioned in the update to the article.
If Samsung worded it "We're donating $500k to support the great work the Linux Foundation does with FOSS" then I might give them a nod. But to say they are investing $500k (a paltry sum) to battle iOS is kind of sad. Why even say that, it sounds so petty. So your only motivation is to attack Apple? It's not to simply support the legion of open source developers that have been giving you free software for years?
Instead, you're reading commentary from Apple Insider, which is obviously a completely unbiased source, that clearly doesn't believe everything revolves around Apple.
What does this investment actually buy them? And what does it go toward?
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs
Whilst there has obviously been commercial investment in the past , I'm assuming the majority of it was for enterprise server stuff or embedded things. This is to build user facing stuff.
Perhaps companies are realizing that the only way to escape the nets of MS/Apple and their walled gardens is to invest in open technology.
$500k? When are they going to get serious?
$500k is almost the entire budget of the FreeBSD Foundation. I don't know what the Linux Foundation spends money on, but the FreeBSD Foundation does great stuff with its money. And if you happen to have a "paltry" $500k sitting around, feel free to send it in FreeBSD's direction. :-)
$500k? When are they going to get serious?
$500k is almost the entire budget of the FreeBSD Foundation. I don't know what the Linux Foundation spends money on, but the FreeBSD Foundation does great stuff with its money. And if you happen to have a "paltry" $500k sitting around, feel free to send it in FreeBSD's direction. :-)
At a minimum, Linus. What would you pay him?
Edit: Interestingly he doesn't appear in the Linux Foundation's 990.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
$500k is almost the entire budget of the FreeBSD Foundation. I don't know what the Linux Foundation spends money on, but the FreeBSD Foundation does great stuff with its money. And if you happen to have a "paltry" $500k sitting around, feel free to send it in FreeBSD's direction. :-)
That may be enough to fund the FreeBSD or even Linux Foundation's budget, but is it enough to make a difference in competing with iOS?