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by Risthel 3599 days ago
> The PS4's OS is FreeBSD, which they did release a lot of code in return, but they don't have to open source or > release all their code (i.e. DRM and other "Security" based stuff) if they don't want to.

And that is a 2-way road, where some people cry on forums and maillists anyway, that companies tend to use BSD and not return to community. There is no need to paint it as a win-win situation(distribute proprietary derivate software) when it clearly has its problems too.