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How much if any does Netflix and Sony give to the FreeBSD foundation either in fiat currency donations and/or engineering time donated? Netflix uses it at thei
by gigatexal 3y ago
How much if any does Netflix and Sony give to the FreeBSD foundation either in fiat currency donations and/or engineering time donated?
Netflix uses it at their core for the CDN stuff. I think the core of PlayStation OS is FreeBSD. So I’m curious how much these companies are supporting the foundation at.
- rjsw 3y agoYou can see large donations listed by year here [1]. [1] https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/ https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-donors/donors/
- siffland 3y agoIt is also not just about the financial donations. These companies also do contribute back some source code. I know they do not contribute all of it back, however for closed source products to give back is a nice touch.
- mikece 3y agoBoth do, as does a large firewall maker (Juniper, I think). They keep certain aspects of the secret sauce back but upstreaming changes is enlightened self-interest as they don't have to apply a long series of in-house changes when an upgrade to FreeBSD comes out (Bryan Lunduke had an interview with a FreeBSD maintainer where this was discussed -- I'm not finding that on YouTube though).
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoLunduke pulled his videos from YouTube a while ago. I think he moved to Odysee or another platform.
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