Originally posted by M1kkko
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BSD: Carot
You don't need to fear the companies. FreeBSD, PF, and pfSense are all still there and all still free. Companies will upstream to FreeBSD because they don't want to maintain their own fork. People have gotten bit for this, Juniper for one. NetApp looks like they got tired of it and has started to upstream to FreeBSD also. An OS is hard to build and maintaining a fork is just unfeasible for most companies.
I look at it as.. business are going to sell software anyhow, I'd rather they do it this way and leave the core FreeBSD project alone with it's own goals and directions than do it the RedHat way where they build influence and change the entire OS to suit themselves. Or the MS way where they build incompatible commercial products to edge out anyone not using their stuff.
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