If you pick hardware carefully (or write your own drivers, or pay someone else to do it, which is entirely possible in their case), FreeBSD would be an excellen

If you pick hardware carefully (or write your own drivers, or pay someone else to do it, which is entirely possible in their case), FreeBSD would be an excellent option. I wonder why it isn't more popular among these kinds of manufacturers. (Everyone knows of the two or three major exceptions, which just proves the point.) IMHO it will get there if enough GPL enforcement cases pile up.