• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
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      6 months ago

      Uhm. AFAIK, you only have to share code under the GPL if you distribute binaries outside your organisation.

      If it stays in-house, there’s no distribution, thus no requirement to share the source.

      I’m happy to be wrong, feel free to point out what I missed.

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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      6 months ago

      White what you say is true, I feel like this has more to do with their engineers being better at or more comfortable with FreeBSD or something like that.

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOP
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        6 months ago

        I’d say we don’t know unless we ask Netflix engineers but the comments about license look like a good one to me. Then there is in my opinion the “bloated” Linux versus the more clean BSD experience (I am a Linux user and I like to tinker with BSD sometimes). Maybe it is still true that BSD will not run on as much hardware as Linux does but have you ever compiled a custom kernel on BSD and compared it to compiling a custom kernel on Linux ? On BSD it is in comparison much easier and the documentation is usually really good.