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I presume you mean monetary contributions? Netflix of course will not have developers with OS expertise.

Edit: wow, I'm really getting reamed for this comment.

From the link:

"We will contribute changes we make as part of our project to the community through the FreeBSD committers on our team."

They could hire a FreeBSD hacker and let him/her code all day long on the OS.

They have done that, more than once.

They actually have several developers on staff and most of the work they are doing ends up getting committed back to head