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.”

  • dinckel@lemmy.world
    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

  • s_s
    20·
    1 year ago

    If you really wanted them to give back, you could have just used the GPL. 😂 😅

    • nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      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

    • Rooty@lemmy.world
      7·
      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.

  • joneskind@lemmy.world
    7·
    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