FreeBSD's license means it shows up in a lot of unexpected places -- the last two Sony Playstations run a FreeBSD derived OS for instance. It's around, more then you think, but it's very quiet...

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rbanffy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One of the reasons it’s very quiet is that you can only do what the company that provided it to you allows you to do with it. You can’t reinstall a fork of PlayStation OS, for instance. Sony won’t provide you the sources and the changes they made. If it was a GPLv3 OS, they would provide everything you need to build your own PlayStation OS.

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bigfishrunning 2 hours ago | parent [-]

If it were a GPLv3 OS, it's likely that they would have chosen something else.

	▲	JackSlateur an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Would that have been a bad thing ? Between a proprietary OS on which we cannot do anything and an opensource-based OS on which we cannot do anything .. I'd argue that making the company paying the bill would be more healthy

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throw0101d 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...