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Re:GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability by wildgift on Friday February 08, 2013 @10:00AM (#5188136)
Didn't FreeBSD have some problem with fundraising recently?

Apple used FreeBSD to create Darwin, OS X and iOS. Did they end up contributing back?

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Re:GPL vs BSD, a matter of sustainability by onedognight on Friday February 08, 2013 @02:33PM (#5189668)
> Apple used FreeBSD to create Darwin, OS X and iOS. Did they end up contributing back?

Yes, quite a bit. An example, FreeBSD recently switched from gcc to clang as their main compiler. clang was an Apple project.

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