Slashdot article: Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/06/09/1827256/microsoft-has-created-its-own-freebsd
This is a comment I found on another forum. Interesting thought, IMO.
From TFA . . .
Redmond is not keeping its work on FreeBSD to itself: Anderson says "the MAJORITY of the investments we make at the kernel level to enable network and storage performance were up-streamed into the FreeBSD 10.3 release, so anyone who downloads a FreeBSD 10.3 image from the FreeBSD Foundation will get those investments from Microsoft built in to the OS."
Do you see that big word MAJORITY in there? That means there are parts of the kernel that Microsoft is keeping closed source to themselves.
That is the classic, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. We're to the Extend part right now. It has been extended with proprietary extensions that are not given back to the community.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/06/09/1827256/microsoft-has-created-its-own-freebsd
This is a comment I found on another forum. Interesting thought, IMO.
From TFA . . .
Redmond is not keeping its work on FreeBSD to itself: Anderson says "the MAJORITY of the investments we make at the kernel level to enable network and storage performance were up-streamed into the FreeBSD 10.3 release, so anyone who downloads a FreeBSD 10.3 image from the FreeBSD Foundation will get those investments from Microsoft built in to the OS."
Do you see that big word MAJORITY in there? That means there are parts of the kernel that Microsoft is keeping closed source to themselves.
That is the classic, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. We're to the Extend part right now. It has been extended with proprietary extensions that are not given back to the community.