> Industry modifications to FreeBSD and Minix (and maybe NetBSD too?) were never sent back upstream or were sent back with a delay. And the companies that did

> Industry modifications to FreeBSD and Minix (and maybe NetBSD too?) were never sent back upstream or were sent back with a delay. And the companies that did this paid a price for it when FreeBSD moved forward and they were left behind holding a whole bunch of patches. After the learning the hard way about withholding non-secret sauce patches, many companies contribute back anything that they find in the 'common code' that wouldn't threaten their value proposition. You will regularly see patches with the "Sponsored by" tag in the commit logs: * https://www.freshsource.org/commits.php https://www.freshsource.org/commits.php Here's one from a few hours ago by Netflix: * https://www.freshsource.org/commit.php?message_id=75ad24775b68c59e95bef0047fd6fc8a01271a03 https://www.freshsource.org/commit.php?message_id=75ad24775b... NetApp, Dell-EMC Isilon, Juniper, iXsystems, pfSense, etc are often seen in base, but also in ports and also drivers (Intel, Chelsio, Mellonox). * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_FreeBSD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...