It is amazing to me that I buy a computer with an OS and aparently zero of that money goes to the people writing some of the important code used in that OS.
Windows used to use BSD stuff for the network stack. OSX uses a lot of BSD stuff. These are not poor companies. Including a per-licence donation of a few US cents would have been a significant contribution.
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It is amazing to me that I buy a computer with an OS and aparently zero of that money goes to the people writing some of the important code used in that OS.
Windows used to use BSD stuff for the network stack. OSX uses a lot of BSD stuff. These are not poor companies. Including a per-licence donation of a few US cents would have been a significant contribution.
I think Microsoft was maintaining their own fork of the BSD stuff. The money for support was going to the internal team maintaining it.