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> there's a certain contingent of folks who do not want their userland polluted with GPL-licensed tooling. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Google.

• est31 5y ago
  Google is one of the earliest users of Linux. Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook all use Linux extensively as well. Only Netflix and Apple have a fixation on BSDs, but IIRC even Apple uses Linux internally for their servers.
  • CyberRabbi 5y ago
    Just because they tolerate Linux’s usage of GPL2 does not mean they are neutral or positive toward GPL-licensed code. You mention Google, Chromium is not GPL-licensed nor do they allow GPL code in their tree. Their new kernel, Fuschia, is not GPL. Linux is a great success story of the GPL, its ubiquity has forced corporations to tolerate it and reciprocally contribute back to the community.
  • pjmlp 5y ago
    Regarding Google, depends, they have been doing a GPL cleanup of Android, with Linux kernel being the last piece standing. But fear not, Fuchsia already did its first deployment into production.
  • toast0 5y ago
    Netflix seems OS agnostic. As far as I know, they run Linux in AWS, and FreeBSD for their CDN.