RedHat announced a donation of $100,000 to four open source Foundations

After becoming the first open-source company to generate revenues of $1 billion, RedHat announced today that it would donate $0.1 million to four open-source foundations. On Opensource.com, ceojimwhiteurst announced that it would donate $1 million to the following four open-source foundations that have been voted by the company: CreativeCommons: Leading free and equal sharing of knowledge, the promoted CC Protocol covers the vast majority of open-source documents, personal blogs (including this site), and music

After becoming the first open-source company to generate revenues of $1 billion, RedHat announced today that it would donate $0.1 million to four open-source foundations.

Company CEO Jim whiteurst announced on Opensource.com that it would donate $1 million to the following four open-source foundations that have been voted by the company:

• Creative Commons: leads free and equal sharing of knowledge. The promoted CC protocols cover the vast majority of open-source documents, personal blogs (including this site), music and art.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation: there is no need to explain it too much. The most famous recent activity was Stop SOPA.
• Software Freedom Law Center: an institution that provides professional legal assistance to open-source Software.
• UNICEF Innovation Labs: active in countries such as Serbia, Uganda and Zimbabwe, using open source technologies to provide health and humanitarian assistance.

The above four foundations will score the $0.1 million Red Hat contributed. According to reports, Red Hat's revenue for the last fiscal year reached $1 billion, with a net profit of about $0.14 billion.