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This is an interesting question. One would think, since OpenBSD is BSD licensed, it would be more likely to have vendorized forks available on the marketplace.
by 1MachineElf 5y ago
This is an interesting question.
One would think, since OpenBSD is BSD licensed, it would be more likely to have vendorized forks available on the marketplace. Companies being obliged to share their code is allegedly a disadvantage of GPL-licenced Linux. But with OpenBSD, there are no prominent commercial forks. The one "active" OpenBSD fork today is HyperbolaBSD, and it hasn't made a single release yet after 2 years. Previous attempts at OpenBSD forks have failed (Bitrig, ÆrieBSD). Somehow, OpenBSD appears to be less fork-able than other BSDs.
Why does the OpenBSD project subvert our expectations of a BSD-licenced OS?
I'm asking as someone who had a positive experience setting up an OpenBSD router and VPN, but not much beyond that.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoMaybe because the founder and team is known for zero tolerance toward BS, gives a shit about percieved 'needs' of shitty 'bizniz', and drama.
- nopcode 5y agoWhat is a "vendorized fork" ? There are companies that build commercial (virtual) firewall appliances based on OpenBSD. But they do not publish an open source, BSD-licensed, operating system.
- hackbinary 5y agoFreeBSD underpins a fair number of commercial producers. Junos from Juniper perhaps being the most famous. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_FreeBSD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Fr...