IIRC Netflix is using FreeBSD.
Outside the server scope, OSX is mainly BSD with a different kernel.
FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD too.
Outside the server scope, OSX is mainly BSD with a different kernel.
FreeNAS is based on FreeBSD too.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...
If you follow the commit logs, you'll regularly see "Sponsored by" messages:
* https://www.freshsource.org/commits.php
Not just for the core OS, but also in ports and also drivers (Intel, Chelsio, Mellonox).
FreeBSD in particular has always been persnickety about acknowledging work done on behalf of others. Something that would have prevented the IBM-SCO lawsuit if Linux had used commit/patch tracking from the beggining.
One of the huge reasons people use FreeBSD is simply licensing. If you dont want to release any source code simply build your custom app on FreeBSD and only include BSD licensed software. Makes being proprietary simple.
Note, this does not mean any companies that do this do not give back to the project, they do in the way of code commits and sometimes donations.
Isilon did not contribute back for a while, and then the FreeBSD project kept moving forward, and so the patches they kept in-house kept getting bigger and bigger, which was overhead in their development.
They've basically caught up now:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneFS_distributed_file_system#...
Isilon and their OneFS was a stand-alone company (like Panasas still is). EMC bought Isilon. Then Dell and EMC merged.