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Is this Sipura/Linksys story? Or there are more cases?

Less companies contribute to FreeBSD because its market share is lower than the one of Linux. And I believe first part of Beno's answer is correct - it's because FreeBSD version of RedHat didn't happened at the right moment. RedHat was there when window of opportunity opened for open source OS and was able to boost linux ecosystem by paying Linux developers which led to higher adoption which led to more contributions from corporate world.

GPL does not require contributions. GPL requires access to sources. Not to changes history, only sources. Contributions happen because it's more profitable for company (in long run) to participate in community and influence development than to be a passive actor.

My point is: license has very little to do with market share in this case. It's more about being good enough and having certain amount of luck when the right moment arives.

And lots do. Top 20 sponsored contributions from 01/01/2016 up to now sorted by number of commits (not the best metric, but still)

  1031 The FreeBSD Foundation 
   888 EMC / Isilon Storage Division
   379 Microsoft OSTC
   339 Microsoft
   297 Solarflare Communications, Inc.
   277 Dell EMC Isilon
   221 DARPA, AFRL
   170 Mellanox Technologies
   144 Chelsio Communications
   128 ABT Systems Ltd
    90 Spectra Logic Corp
    88 HEIF5
    70 Cavium
    58 Smartcom - Bulgaria AD
    57 Stormshield
    48 Netflix
    45 Rubicon Communications, LLC (Netgate)
    42 Multiplay
    38 ScaleEngine Inc.
    35 Citrix Systems R&D

The article is written by expat. And I think Kiev is a great city to be expat in. It's beautiful, it's vibrant and if you're not in 9-to-5-with-2-hours-commute rut you can avoid a lot of negative sides of living there. Having ticket out helps.

My immigration timeline is the same and since 2008 I go to Kiev every year and things do change. Some for worse, some for better, some changed for worse and then for better. I think I understand what author meant by youthful energy. It's there all right. Despite everything there are happy young faces on the streets and in parks. Funny kids in rad glasses and bow-ties (and when I was teenager sporting long hair was asking for trouble). Chasopys co-working space is abuzz with people collaborating either in person or over internet. New attractions, new places, new events. I hope this energy won't dry out.

Kiev is not as bleak as described in parent post. Life is fucked up by war but the city is worth visiting. Worth moving there too if you're on adventurous side of expat tribe.

It may be the name he provided as his legal name when applying for visa/permit. Patronymic name is foreign concept for US/Canadian legal system so for immigration purposes it is treated as middle name AFAIK and quite liberally at that.

Canadian immigration service, for one, just cuts patronymic name if total length of first + patronymic + last names exceeds certain limit (my guess - the limi tis length of the field in some form/database). So "Igorevich" becomes "Igore" or "Igorev" depending on you first/last names lengths. US may have more flexible rules and lets you provide your version of middle name or drop it altogether.

I wouldn't attach too much importance to this detail