Today, the Apache Software Foundation gained a new sponsor: Facebook. Facebook is a gold sponsor, too, which means that the social network expressed its support for open source software by volunteering to donate $40,000 per year to the ASF. Cynics shouldn't waste their time looking for an ulterior motive. Facebook won't get much out of this deal aside from a link on the ASF's "Thanks" page, an ASF logo to put on its own site, and a PR blurb.