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I have been using FreeBSD since 1999, a great OS and i love it, at work i am a Linux system administrator. One of the huge reasons people use FreeBSD is simply

I have been using FreeBSD since 1999, a great OS and i love it, at work i am a Linux system administrator. One of the huge reasons people use FreeBSD is simply licensing. If you dont want to release any source code simply build your custom app on FreeBSD and only include BSD licensed software. Makes being proprietary simple. Note, this does not mean any companies that do this do not give back to the project, they do in the way of code commits and sometimes donations.

throw0101a 7y ago
Companies that do not give back non-secret sauce patches will find they will contribute to their own pain (unless they're big enough to fork and not care about going back). Isilon did not contribute back for a while, and then the FreeBSD project kept moving forward, and so the patches they kept in-house kept getting bigger and bigger, which was overhead in their development. They've basically caught up now: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneFS_distributed_file_system#Versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneFS_distributed_file_system#...