WhatsApp founder donated $ 1 million to FreeBSD

On November 17, the FreeBSD Foundation reported receiving an unexpectedly generous donation of $ 1 million. Patron of the arts was Jan Kum, one of the founders and CEO of the famous WhatsApp application. This is the largest donation in the 15-year history of the foundation. The Foundation reports that it is now planning how to best distribute this money so that it will benefit the FreeBSD community. The fund plans to invest part of the money in order to ensure its supporting income, and to send part of it to improve and expand the functionality.

Ian Kum commented on his donation on his Facebook page : “Last week, I donated a million dollars to FreeBSD, which supports open-source operating systems that helped millions of programmers follow their passion and realize their dreams.
I am one of them. I started using FreeBSD in the late 90s, when I was not rich and lived in a municipal building. In a sense, FreeBSD helped me out of poverty - thanks to her, I got a job at Yahoo. Years later, when Brian and I decided to do WhatsApp, we used FreeBSD on our servers. And still use.
I want this donation to shed light on the work of the foundation, with the hope that others will also help to advance its work. We all will benefit if the fund gives other people the opportunities it gave me - to bring other immigrants out of poverty and help more startups to build something successful and transforming today's reality. ”

FreeBSD is one of the popular UNIX-like systems, used primarily on Internet servers. The first version of the system was released in 1993. According to research firm w3techs, FreeBSD is used on 1% of all servers in the world.
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Jan Kum is a Ukrainian émigré, born in Kiev in 1976, and emigrating to the United States in 1992 with his mother and grandmother. While working at Yahoo, he met Brian Acton, who in 2009 founded a messenger for WhatsApp smartphones. This application for communication in the form of instant messages to which you can attach pictures and videos. In 2014, a startup was bought by Facebook for $ 19 billion.