Whatsapp founder donates $1 million to FreeBSD

[drhowarddrfine]

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I started using FreeBSD in the late 90s, when I didn’t have much money and was living in government housing. In a way, FreeBSD helped lift me out of poverty – one of the main reasons I got a job at Yahoo! is because they were using FreeBSD, and it was my operating system of choice. Years later, when Brian and I set out to build WhatsApp, we used FreeBSD to keep our servers running. We still do. --Jan Koum

 

[6502]

2014?

 

[YYY__]

I thought the same thing when I saw it on the vermaden news. Any non-obvious reason?

 

[hruodr]

Jan Koum - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Koum also donated $2 million to AIPAC to support their involvement in the 2022 Democratic primaries.[20]

Strange form of supporting the Democratic Party.

 

[drhowarddrfine]

hruodr Maybe their web site runs FreeBSD. But let's not go off topic on the guy

 

[drhowarddrfine]

2014?

Jeez. Hadn't noticed that. Was wondering why I hadn't seen it posted anywhere else.

 

[richardtoohey2]

In which case - still about US$500,000 to go: https://freebsdfoundation.org/donate/

$935,362 of Goal: $1,400,000

 

[DutchDaemon]

Old news; not going into politics here. Closed.