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Linux contributions are not the best example, since it's GPL, and you pretty much have to contribute back to get your changes mainlined, and end-users can reque

Linux contributions are not the best example, since it's GPL, and you pretty much have to contribute back to get your changes mainlined, and end-users can request your changes at any time. Now, if they contributed back to FreeBSD, that would be meaningful, since they don't have to.

pabs3 7y ago
Amazon doesn't distribute Linux on server hardware (just consumer hardware like the Kindle) so they don't have to give back for server aspects of Linux like KVM, yet in the Linux kernel code, the Amazon employees are mostly submitting patches for things like KVM, not for Kindle hardware support. It would surprise me if Amazon use FreeBSD, I thought they use Xen & Linux KVM exclusively?
- _msw_ 7y ago
  Disclosure: I work for AWS. See https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1211125881264934917 https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/1211125881264934917 for one example of working with FreeBSD. It's truly awesome that I can send an email to Amazon saying "we're seeing an odd performance issue here" and get back "here's a FreeBSD kernel patch I just wrote which provides a 10% performance boost". And people claim that Amazon never contributes back to open source... I linked the patches here. Not all of the work is from an AWS engineer: https://twitter.com/_msw_/status/1220088310443307008 https://twitter.com/_msw_/status/1220088310443307008 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23322 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23323 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23324 https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23325