FreeBSD must be pulling a very long con, then.

Yeah.

I think project governance matters more than license, and the BSDs are great examples.

Having said that, I’ve soured on the GPL. V3 more-or-less bans companies from selling you hardware that runs free software, but lets Google, Meta, etc use the software to expand their cloud-based monopolies where surveillance capitalism and enshittification have won out.

AGPL or BSL seem much better if you want free as in freedom. BSD and Apache at least don’t force your software off of machines that end users control.

Yes, BSL is not open (TM) or free (TM) or whatever. It’s still better IMHO, since it at least has some path to revenue for the developers.

Uh, yes?

Half of the initial mac os x kernel was ripped off freebsd, giving pretty much nothing back.

Afaik netapp is also basing their system on bsd.

Sony uses freebsd as the OS for their playstation.

And many more, giving essentially nothing back.