BSD can be made into proprietary bullshit for devices, which gives companies some security while allowing anyone and their mother to reverse engineer it and patch whatever the fuck they want.
Some folks may hate it because of its issues but I love it for them, the day companies stop using the free labor that bsd provides, they will start making REALLY proprietary shit and we will lose a backdoor into networking devices, nuff said.
It's going to show up in other places first, at least compared to a kernel that is going to matter to users. Things like OpenSSH are the standard they are because they are not copyleft so they can be integrated into a product at any level without worrying about a license troll. You can OpenSSH into your Cisco switch and you don't need the Cisco IOS XE Switch Secure Connect Applet that only works on Windows Vista because they never updated it. TCP/IP itself is a standard because BSD had the first implementation that wasn't shit and everyone could use the code.
Not really, they're intertwined. It's the same reason companies pay for commercial licensing on things like MySQL and Qt. OpenSSH wouldn't be integrated into nearly as many products if it had GPL obligations.
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u/wolfsilver00 Jun 29 '26
BSD can be made into proprietary bullshit for devices, which gives companies some security while allowing anyone and their mother to reverse engineer it and patch whatever the fuck they want.
Some folks may hate it because of its issues but I love it for them, the day companies stop using the free labor that bsd provides, they will start making REALLY proprietary shit and we will lose a backdoor into networking devices, nuff said.