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On Wed 09 Mar 2011 at 14:00:37 PST Nerius Landys wrote:
>This is not a technical question.
>
>Basically I have some cash sitting around.  I'm thinking of investing
>part of it with a company that I believe in.  Apple came to mind.  You
>could say that I'd like to judge Apple's moral character before
>investing money with them.  Does anyone know how Apple reciprocates to
>FreeBSD?  After all a lot of MacOSX is borrowed from FreeBSD.  I am
>not seeing Apple's name on this page:
>http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml .  Are there
>other ways in which Apple might be reciprocating?

If memory serves, they've been heavily involved in the LLVM/Clang
project.

That said, see my other reply today about what buying stock is really
all about.