Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder of WhatsApp, donates $1,000,000 to FreeBSD Foundation

Laura Arjona Reina at 2014-11-18T00:04:16Z

Jan Koum, CEO and Co-Founder of #WhatsApp, donates $1,000,000 to #FreeBSD Foundation

http://freebsdfoundation.blogspot.cz/2014/11/freebsd-foundation-announces-generous.html

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I'm not sure why… I find these big donations a bit disturbing, the same as when a non-related VC funds a project or small company. I know it's not the same, but…

Wishing the best to the FreeBSD community.

Laura Arjona Reina at 2014-11-18T00:26:14Z

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>> Laura Arjona:

“I'm not sure why… I find these big donations a bit disturbing, the same as when a non-related VC funds a project or small company. I know it's not the same, but…
Wishing the best to the FreeBSD community.”

I guess they can merge stuff back from MacOS & iOS then. Both are BSD-based these days. A cool million can help open doors at Apple to do that perhaps.

Stephen Michael Kellat at 2014-11-18T04:53:44Z

I doubt that. It's not in Apple's interest, and 1 MUSD is a piss in tje ocean at Apple.

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2014-11-18T07:28:45Z

Oh! I thought it was a company donating. Now I m read it's a person! And he is not owned by Facebook. Then I say good for him and good for FreeBSD. Nice to see people being awesome.

Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) at 2014-11-19T04:45:36Z