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		bidouilliste on July 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreeBSD 11.1 released Whatsapp donated 1 million dollars two years ago and 500000 dollars last year iirc. For Netflix I don't know but they employ a lot of FreeBSD devs and upstream all their work.

microtonal on July 26, 2017 [–]

I think Jan Koum personally donated 1 million:

http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.de/2014/11/freebsd-foundat...

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/blog/foundation-announces-...

Of course, that is completely awesome!

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