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 since everyone seems to want to ask me who is paying for linux development, here's your fucking link:

https://www.learnitguide.net/2023/04/who-are-top-donors-of-linux-foundation.html

now show me the list of funders of #bitcoin and see what they have in common

pretty sure, absolutely NOTHING

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 anyone who conflates the two projects is either lying to you or just repeating what they heard

DON'T TRUST, VERIFY 
 this is why i found it so offensive when ava gloats about how pfsense is abandoning the freebsd project

freebsd is actually built and maintained almost exclusively by volunteers, and i think there is some funding from Sony and Apple who both use the codebase