@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.

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

@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