Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:57:42 +0800 From: mikel king <mikel.king@olivent.com> To: Nerius Landys <nlandys@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship Message-ID: <3633432D-06EA-4AB0-B72A-9967F09D3704@olivent.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinqpOeSro5dPJJ-yRa%2BZMDD0Nphu%2B4wd9Raxex7@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTinqpOeSro5dPJJ-yRa%2BZMDD0Nphu%2B4wd9Raxex7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Nerius Landys wrote: > This is not a technical question. >=20 > Basically I have some cash sitting around. I'm thinking of investing > part of it with a company that I believe in. Apple came to mind. You > could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character before > investing money with them. Does anyone know how Apple reciprocates to > FreeBSD? After all a lot of MacOSX is borrowed from FreeBSD. I am > not seeing Apple's name on this page: > http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml . Are there > other ways in which Apple might be reciprocating? >=20 > - Nerius Apple has had a mixed relationship giving back to the BSD community. = They did hire several developers over time and do have several projects = that they have open sourced. Launchd & iCal server are two of the bigger = ones. I personally feel that they could do better and certainly could = have done things differently in a way that would have helped the = community and built an even stronger product base but let's face it they = sure aren't listening to me. In recent years their marketing as gone to some lengths to scrub the = references to BSD & UNIX from the brochures. It's like they are ashamed = of their roots, again personally I think they hired some new anti-geeks = that just don't get it. I would suggest you look at spreading your investment around to several = BSD supportive companies. Obviously Apple and Juniper pop up to the top = of the list. I would have offered Isilon but they have been assimilated = into the beast know as EMC so that may not be an option. At the end of the day they are a company, and companies must make money = in order to survive. Therefore, do not get too attached to their BSD = rhetoric because the winds of business can change direction at any = moment. On a side note: I would love to find a comprehensive list of both public = and private companies that are BSD supportive. Regards, Mikel King BSD News Network http://bsdnews.net skype: mikel.king http://twitter.com/mikelking
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