by Cao | Dec 2, 2016 | FreeBSD Foundation, WhatsApp
Last year, Jan Koum donated $1 million to the FreeBSD Foundation, allowing the organization to surpass their fundraising goal for 2015. This year in 2016, Koum donated a large amount once again, helping the organization continue their efforts in funding FreeBSD...
by Cao | Nov 12, 2015 | BSD World, FreeBSD Conferences, WhatsApp
A round up of interesting videos detailing the BSD community and its history. Dive into the minds of Rick Reed, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Robert Watson, and George Neville-Neil. Thanks to users Beastie7, protocelt, PacketMan, & Kalero for collecting the links....
by Cao | Oct 30, 2015 | FreeBSD, WhatsApp
Jan Koum, founder of WhatsApp — the popular mobile messaging and voice calling application, has once again given tribute to FreeBSD and spoke of his beginnings at Yahoo. You can read the full article at Wired. WhatsApp is used by 900,000,000 users around the...
by Cao | Feb 5, 2015 | BSD Talk, WhatsApp
Rick Reed’s WhatsApp from MeetBSD 2014 is now available for listening on bsdtalk. Ogg Link: https://archive.org/download/bsdtalk250/bsdtalk250.ogg Original post: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/2015/01/bsdtalk250-whatsapp-half-billion.html
by Cao | Nov 19, 2014 | FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation, WhatsApp
Jam Koum, CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp–a company well known to deploy FreeBSD on their servers, has recently made a very generous donation of $1,000,000 to the FreeBSD Foundation. This means that their 2014 fundraising goal of $1,000,000 has been surpassed....
