78
Canonical Will Donate $120k to Open Source Projects This Year
(www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
78 points (98.8% liked)
Opensource
2668 readers
103 users here now
A community for discussion about open source software! Ask questions, share knowledge, share news, or post interesting stuff related to it!
⠀
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
lol! The highest amount donated was $496.95 and the lowest was $20. Source. These are all services canonical relies on. $20 is a slap in the face, $496.95 isn’t much better depending on how much that code is used.
The sum says 20K, so that's 1/6th of what they'll donate this year, if the article is correct.
At least they put a date on it. Jeff bezos claimed he would donate 12 billion dollars or around that to climate change initiatives.
6 years later and I have kept track of it for the first 4-5 years. He had donate a whopping <3% of what he pledged. Of course he paid a lot more to pollute more than he saved with rockets.
Canonical is mostly a leech on open source.