While what you say is in some sense true, we also make fairly large contributions back to FreeBSD as well. Case-in-point: AES-GCM, including AES-NI support, an

While what you say is in some sense true, we also make fairly large contributions back to FreeBSD as well. Case-in-point: AES-GCM, including AES-NI support, and support for same for IPsec. There are other, more minor contributions, such as the new 'tryforward' code (replaces what was 'fast-forward', but doesn't break IPsec). r290383 Or r290028, where we eliminated the performance impact of IPsec (which is now on by default in -CURRENT). I could go on to detail around 30 recent changes to FreeBSD, but I think the point is made. In any case, it's a bit more than "bundling it all up and slapping a web interface on top of it", as you assert, but you're not the only person who thinks this way. Your point that we leverage others work is correct.