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Re:Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vuln... by sureaboutthis on Sunday December 31, 2017 @06:45AM (#16040242)
Netflix contributes code back to FreeBSD including kernel contributions via Netflix own in-house FreeBSD committers that have greatly improved streaming and other improvements. Netflix also contributes monetarily.

https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/software/ "All code improvements, feature additions, and bug fixes are contributed directly back to the open source community via the FreeBSD committers on our team. We also strive to stay at the front of the FreeBSD development process, allowing us to have a tight feedback loop with other community and partner developers."

WhatsApp has also contributed monetarily and with software. You need to know that Facebook only recently bought WhatsApp.

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Re:Are all BSDs created equally? A survey of BSD kernel vuln... by kogepathic on Sunday December 31, 2017 @09:57AM (#16040775)
> WhatsApp has also contributed monetarily and with software. You need to know that Facebook only recently bought WhatsApp.

Coming up on almost 4 years now since the WhatsApp acquisition was announced (Feb 2014) and over 3 years since the acquisition closed (Oct 2014). [1] [2]

I wouldn't call either date "recently"

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/19/technology/social/facebook-w...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-10-28/facebook-...

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