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As much as I love FreeBSD, it has its rough edges when it comes to daily use. And an upgrade, while much smoother than it used to be in the "make buildkernel; m

As much as I love FreeBSD, it has its rough edges when it comes to daily use. And an upgrade, while much smoother than it used to be in the "make buildkernel; make buildworld" times, is still lacking and can break the system. The saddest is that FreeBSD is massively underfunded. They still manage to do great stuff, make massive improvements. If the big corporations like Apple, who made billions on FreeBSD, could just return a couple millions in donations to the FreeBSD Foundation on a yearly basis, which for them would be less than a rounding error, the OS would be in a vastly different place now. But their corporate greed knows no bounds.

pjmlp 3mo ago
Or you know, that games console vendor.
- TheSeeker11 3mo ago
  Not to mention Netflix!
  - pjmlp 3mo ago
    The beauty of commercial friendly licenses.
  - rootnod3 3mo ago
    With the absolute irony that you cannot watch Netflix on FreeBSD (barring using the Linux compat layer to run a Linux version of Chrome)
cookiengineer 3mo ago
Apple made me realize that I should choose AGPL as a license for my own projects, because I don't agree with the implied contract values of X11/MIT or BSD licenses anymore. The latter licenses I choose now only for things I absolutely don't care about and won't spend any time on. Things that I care about I license under AGPL. If someone wants it fixed by paying development time, great, then just offer it dual-licensed AGPL/EULA.
- ferfumarma 3mo ago
  Kudos to you. It's wild how poorly hacker culture has learned this lesson.
HackerThemAll 3mo ago
NetBSD tragedy is even more saddening. They struggle to raise $50k despite their system be great and solid to the point that it was used by NASA, Apple (terminal commands), BlackBerry and Playstations. They just treat MIT-licensed software like a public road which "somebody" is going to upkeep, but there's nobody except tireless open source developers who do that, especially in case of NetBSD. I just dream of times when signing half a million check is not an issue for a company that is worth trillions. It's way less than every single one of them spend annually on t-shirts for their employees.

pjmlp 3mo ago

Or you know, that games console vendor.

TheSeeker11 3mo ago
Not to mention Netflix!
- pjmlp 3mo ago
  The beauty of commercial friendly licenses.
- rootnod3 3mo ago
  With the absolute irony that you cannot watch Netflix on FreeBSD (barring using the Linux compat layer to run a Linux version of Chrome)

cookiengineer 3mo ago

Apple made me realize that I should choose AGPL as a license for my own projects, because I don't agree with the implied contract values of X11/MIT or BSD licenses anymore. The latter licenses I choose now only for things I absolutely don't care about and won't spend any time on. Things that I care about I license under AGPL. If someone wants it fixed by paying development time, great, then just offer it dual-licensed AGPL/EULA.

ferfumarma 3mo ago
Kudos to you. It's wild how poorly hacker culture has learned this lesson.

HackerThemAll 3mo ago

NetBSD tragedy is even more saddening. They struggle to raise $50k despite their system be great and solid to the point that it was used by NASA, Apple (terminal commands), BlackBerry and Playstations. They just treat MIT-licensed software like a public road which "somebody" is going to upkeep, but there's nobody except tireless open source developers who do that, especially in case of NetBSD. I just dream of times when signing half a million check is not an issue for a company that is worth trillions. It's way less than every single one of them spend annually on t-shirts for their employees.