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1. feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 10:22:14 JST feld
   Took them a while to put it on the site, but here's proof
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 10:22:09 JST xianc78

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     @feld @mint @vhns I know Sony gave back some code after using BSD for their PlayStation operating systems.

   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 10:22:10 JST feld

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     @mint @vhns WhatsApp gave FreeBSD a million dollars -- before Facebook acquired them I think.
     
     Netflix gives a ton of code and employs people. I want to say Netflix has given the largest code contributions overall. I wonder if anyone has done analysis on that specifically. What percent of the codebase was by which corporation that uses it
   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 10:22:11 JST feld

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     @mint @vhns Honestly I don't understand when companies do this. I see it a lot and it seems petty and insulting. Like, they piss money away on the most worthless shit all the time who is going to notice $50k to each open source project they use. Who? Nobody. Except shareholders.
   • Vitor Hugo (vhns@yuga.surf)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 10:22:12 JST Vitor Hugo

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     @feld FreeBSD?
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     @vhns @feld I recognize that meme.
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   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 10:37:41 JST feld

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     @xianc78 @mint @vhns Nintendo is one that has not really upstreamed anything
   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 10:37:41 JST xianc78

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     @feld @mint @vhns I don't think Nintendo has ever released any source code for anything outside of some experimental operating system they made back in the mid 2000s.

     https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/inside-nintendo-s-es-open-source-operating-system

   • feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 17-Aug-2024 10:37:42 JST feld

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     @xianc78 @mint @vhns A couple GEOM fixes I think? I don't remember anything else. They massively forked it by stripping down the kernel to remove a ton of syscalls and then they added new custom ones that addressed their game console needs
     
     Bluecoat gave a bunch of network stack improvements years ago, the most significant before Netflix.
     
     Dell/EMC has realized their mistake and is now working to upstream their changes so they don't have to run really old kernels. They have storage and NFS fixes.
     
     Microsoft donates code and drivers to make it work efficiently under Hyper-V. Citrix did the same for Xen.
     
     Intel does a lot, AMD does some, Nvidia/Mellanox does a good amount for network drivers