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HP has become the third premier sponsor of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) and fwupd, joining Dell and Lenovo in contributing $100k+ annually to support firmware updates on Linux. (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

100k is peanuts for these xompanies. Welcome all the help FOSS can get, but that is literally nothing to these companies. A license for atlassian is more expensive by a magnitude.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

It feels like a nice round tax number.

It reminds me of how US companies get a tax credit of up to $200 for office bonding i.e. pizza parties. That's literally the reason they're so common... It's a tax write-off...