• Morphit @feddit.uk
    602·
    1 hour ago

    Doesn’t hold up today: https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/?donationType=individual&donationYear=2026

    2013: $5-$24 ? (assuming the comic image is 20 years after the foundation was started in 1993)
    2018: $1000-$4999
    2019: $1000-$4999
    2020: $250-$499
    2021: $1000-$4999
    2022: $1000-$4999
    2023: $100-$249
    2024: $500-$999
    2025: $200-$499
    2026: $1000-$4999

    I expected better, internet.

    Though even at $5k it’d be 38 parts per billion of their annual profit.

    Edit: As per replies this was from long ago (2013?) and is no longer on the FreeBSD site.
    Edit2: The most recent Wayback Machine capture was 2020 when Apple gave $0
    Edit3: Looks like other captures are there also and 2020 was an anomaly.
    Edit4: The amounts per year change in Wayback captures so the OP image may have been true at some point, but was not the final total for any one year. Maybe it’s some employee matching program that adds many small amounts over the course of a year.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      It’s real. See my comment below explaining what happened, namely that it’s from early 2021. I suggest editing your comment, as you only checked the years this wouldn’t possibly apply to (the screenshot was made pre-2024).

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          This was not from 2013. This screenshot was provably from 2021, specifically anywhere from January 17th to March 27th. The FreeBSD Foundation celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2020 (press release from December 21st, 2020, here). The person who said it was from 2013 wrongly assumed that the logo (upper-left of the screenshot) was referencing the 20th anniversary of FreeBSD itself and not the FreeBSD Foundation.

          The reason it’s so low is that 1) this is kept track of throughout the year, and 2) it was a matched donation or donations. Thus, Apple matched donations throughout the year, eventually amounting to $1000–4999, but at the point this screenshot was taken (early in the year), they were only between $5–24.

          Please read my comment below explaining this. You’ve accidentally edited more misinformation into your comment in trying to be more thorough.

          • Morphit @feddit.uk
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Yeah, I was sceptical of the 1993 + 20. Do you have a capture that shows this? This one has the 20th anniversary banner but Apple doesn’t appear at all in that capture for 2020. I think these pages have changed over the course of the years. There may well be one as per the comic, but it’s not easy to find.

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    29 minutes ago

    Edit 3: This is not edited but rather a real screenshot from early 2021.

    • Alexander Tharapos only shows up in 2021. David Choi is also in the $5–24 bracket.
    • Donations accrue throughout the year. Here’s one snapshot from late March 2021 showing Apple far below where they were at year’s end.
    • The FreeBSD Foundation’s 20th anniversary was in 2020, hence the logo.
    • However, this was after mid-January, as we have an archive from then when Apple Inc. wasn’t on the donor list yet.
    • Apple was in the $1000–$4999 range by year’s end.

    This also comports with @RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip’s note about the donation matching program. A small automatic donation like this would make sense.

    What’s more likely?

    • Apple, Inc. noticed and went out of their way to donate – but an amount so inconsequential that it damages their brand image and probably, due to labor overhead, cost them more to donate than the amount actually donated.
    • You can donate under whatever name you want, and someone just made their name “Apple Inc.” as a joke.

    Edit: I checked the donors, and while I couldn’t go back farther than 2024 (even by changing the URL param), none of them were $5–24.

    Edit 2: I went back to 2018 via the Wayback Machine and still couldn’t find this. I guess it’s possible it happened before this, but given every single year seems to be in the hundreds to thousands range and given a $25 donation by a company like Apple would be pissing money into the void, this seems dubious.