Editing to add alt text here, as Lemmy still does not support alt text in image posts: A fake screenshot of the FreeBSD Foundation donation page showing Apple, Inc. under the $5-$24 donation category. The screenshot is next to a poorly drawn four-panel comic.

Panel One: Title: “Apple HQ.” Two people sit at a large wooden table. Person one: “We used BSD code, now it’s time to contribute back.” Person two: "Hold on, it’s BSD licensed, right? I have an idea.

Panel Two: Title: “FreeBSD donation pipeline” A zoomed in view of a map with a large green line connecting the USA to Europe.

Panel Three: Three people, surrounded in a cloud of filth, scramble beneath the end of a large green pipe, reaching towards it with their wiggly stick-figure arms. One person is leaping in from out of frame. The people have bags under their eyes, many missing teeth, and are wearing sack-like clothing crudely mended with patches of random fabrics.

Panel Four: The pale face of one of the three people beneath the end of the large green pipe, mouth open revealing their jagged yellow teeth as they attempt to catch a trickle of liquid seeping from the end of the pipe. The liquid is captioned: “$24.”

      • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)
        28•1 year ago

        I’m aware, simply from the standpoint that a donation that small probably wouldn’t be considered worth the company’s time. Also Chevron being there is another giveaway.

      • kirklennon
        91•1 year ago

        Apple offers to match donations from employees so this is a case of an employee making a small donation and Apple matching it rather than Apple explicitly choosing to make a tiny donation itself.

        • UnfortunateShort
          36•1 year ago

          While that’s a great answer, it’s still extremely disappointing… A million is a rounding error for Apple.

          • PupBiru
            8•1 year ago

            sure, but a $1m over how many causes? i’d assume they don’t really even use freebsd, considering macos was based in openbsd? so i’d suggest that an employee match is pretty decent

      • @bob_wileyEnglish
        10•11 months ago

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    • (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻English
      13•1 year ago

      $250–$499… Good thing there are 4 and a ½ months to donate more since they made the backbone of their systems.

      I’m sure they will. /s

  • dinckel
    42•1 year ago

    It’s definitely not 25$ but it is in the 250$ category, which is still pathetic, granted they’re a 3 trillion dollar company

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Then they would have developed their own like windows. I’d call it apple core if it was the late 80s early 90s

  • @radiohead37
    15•1 year ago

    And they will still claim a tax deduction.

  • @Moc
    8•1 year ago

    Chevron swinging the big money around

    • @Rooty
      10•1 year ago

      Ask and ye shall recieve:

      I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than writing BSD-licensed software. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are designing, programming, debugging and distributing a piece of software for any number of years solely so it can go and get used in proprietary projects by corporations. All the hard work you put into your beautiful software - writing good documentation, making optimizations, making sure it runs well on other machines, formatting it, troubleshooting it. All of it has one simple result: its codebase is more enjoyable for proprietary projects.

      Wrote the perfect software? Great. Who benefits? If you’re lucky, a random corporation who had nothing to do with the way it was developed, who uses it. That corporation gets to use it in spyware and DRM, like Minix and IME. It gets the benefits of the software’s innovation and optimization that came from the way you programmed it.

      As a programmer who writes BSD-licensed software, you are LITERALLY dedicating however many years of your life simply to program software for proprietary corporate/government projects to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.

  • Milady
    2•1 year ago

    I don’t get it

  • @joneskind
    -17•1 year ago

    Imagine contributing by making macOS /iOS/tvOS/watchOS/visionOS kernel Open Source and still have a bunch of losers raging on.

    Imagine having invented so many GUI tools that every fucking Linux distribution is copying and still raging on that one day Apple integrated Spaces without specifying they took it from Linux.

    Imagine raging on “Apple sherlocking bad” while every fucking Open Source application is a pale copy of a proprietary one.

    Imagine raging on Apple from a Google phone or a Dell laptop running Windows on dual boot because “gaming”

    So many things to imagine when you think about it

    • @MetaCubed
      18•1 year ago

      Imagine having a raging hard-on for another corporation that doesn’t give two fucks about you

    • @prettydarknwild
      11•1 year ago

      man it’s just a megacorporation chill out, they don’t need to be defended by you or anyone they already pay law firms to do it