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Uh, yes? Half of the initial mac os x kernel was ripped off freebsd, giving pretty much nothing back. Afaik netapp is also basing their system on bsd. Sony u

by znpy 2y ago

Uh, yes? Half of the initial mac os x kernel was ripped off freebsd, giving pretty much nothing back. Afaik netapp is also basing their system on bsd. Sony uses freebsd as the OS for their playstation. And many more, giving essentially nothing back.

hedora 2y ago
Regarding apple: They support cups and clang, and stuff like swift and webkit. Also, the darwin kernel is open source. I’d be shocked if netapp hard forked bsd and doesn’t upstream fixes.
- oynqr 2y ago
  They support the version of cups that nobody uses anymore, except themselves.
- jollyllama 2y ago
  ONTAP is a fork of BSD (dunno if they upstream or not) and NetApp are far from the only ones in the storage sector who have done this.
voidspark 2y ago
> Half of the initial mac os x kernel was ripped off freebsd, giving pretty much nothing back. That is open source. https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macOS https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
spauldo 2y ago
You'll notice the FreeBSD folks don't seem to be particularly bothered by this. FreeBSD loses nothing to Apple or NetAPP. This attitude of "OMG you're being ripped off" any time a company incorporates code from a BSD/MIT/whatever licensed project baffles me.