The non-profit organization Linux Foundation, which oversees a wide range of works related to the development of Linux, on the transition of Facebook to the category of platinum members, who receive the right to enter the company's representative on the board of directors of the Linux Foundation, while paying an annual fee of $500 (for comparison, the contribution of a gold member is $100 per year, a silver member is $5- 20 thousand per year). In addition to Facebook, the Linux Foundation is among the platinum partners Fujitsu, AT&T, Google, Huawei, IBM, Hitachi, Microsoft, Intel, NEC, Qualcomm, Oracle, Samsung, VMware and Tencent.
It is noted that the cost of writing code for more than 100 open source projects curated by the Linux Foundation is estimated at $ 16 billion. Facebook's contribution to the common cause is expressed in the creation of such joint projects as , , и , as well as in the employment of some key developers and maintainers of subsystems of the Linux kernel. Of the open initiatives of Facebook, the telecommunications platform is also mentioned. , a project to develop technologies for project , formation of an ecosystem around the framework , library .
Source: opennet.ru