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To be fair, they do say "It is our intention to upstream any code which we can." and give the 3 reasons they have local commits, which all seem reasonable. I e

To be fair, they do say "It is our intention to upstream any code which we can." and give the 3 reasons they have local commits, which all seem reasonable. I expect they will continue making contributions as they make finish features and generalize the features. Part of the allure, uniqueness, and awesomeness of the *BSDs is that they _can_ be modified and forked in this way because of the license. So the fact that FreeBSD has made an amazing code base that can and does serve as the foundation of Netflix's distribution network is great; it gives visibility to the OS and also meaningful code contributions from a large player who pushes it to the limits. We may not get all of those _right_now_ because of NDAs and the realities of life, but it is all helping to make it more awesome.

nordsieck 8y ago
> Part of the allure, uniqueness, and awesomeness of the *BSDs is that they _can_ be modified and forked in this way because of the license. There is no "distribution" happening; all of Netflix's use of BSD is internal. Even if they had chosen to modify Linux instead, there would be no requirement to share their changes.
- empthought 8y ago
  Pretty sure they distribute these appliances to ISPs...
  - nordsieck 8y ago
    > Pretty sure they distribute these appliances to ISPs... They co-locate them at ISP as a form of extremely distributed peering. Netflix, however, owns the boxes. In the context of licenses such as the GPLv2, distribution happens when software transfers from one party to another. This doesn't happen: the software always stays on Netflix owned devices.