Netflix isn't the only one contributing back to Netflix. In his interview with Bryan Lunduke, George Neville-Neil[1] explained why it's very much in the interes

Netflix isn't the only one contributing back to Netflix. In his interview with Bryan Lunduke, George Neville-Neil[1] explained why it's very much in the interest of companies like Netflix, Juniper, and others who base their systems on FreeBSD to contribute back all "infrastructure-level" changes they make: it helps the FreeBSD community and also reduces the amount of sysadmin overhead when it comes to upgrading to newer versions of FreeBSD. Only those things which are unique differentiators for their business are withheld and kept proprietary. For Juniper that's going to be a lot more than Netflix but it still disproves the GPL puritans who rip on BSD/MIT/Apache2 licensed software as being black holes from which companies won't contribute back to the community. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cofKxtIO3Is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cofKxtIO3Is