It was originally, yes. There's a lot of corporate influence now (just look at the monthly kernel submissions). https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribut

It was originally, yes. There's a lot of corporate influence now (just look at the monthly kernel submissions). https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/ https://news.itsfoss.com/huawei-kernel-contribution/ Like others have mentioned, it's just a huge deal in the data center now. With that comes a lot of influence by corporates interests. Whereas BSD has gone the opposite way. Started by Berkeley but abandoned to the community. Business is not really interested in that because anything they contribute can be used by anyone for anything (even their competitors can use it in closed source code). Netflix was the biggest user but I don't think they contribute anymore either. WhatsApp used it until Facebook acquired them. That leaves netgate and ix systems which are small. Netgate pushed a really terrible wireguard once but it was nipped in the bud luckily. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-license-violations-and-bad-code-freebsd-13s-close-call/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/buffer-overruns-lice... It also highlighted many trust issues which have been improved since. Of course whether this is an issue for you is very personal. For me it is but clearly for a lot more people it isn't, as Linux is s lot more popular.