[tachion]

I don't really see your point, these two things have nothing in common. Where a commercial company has resources to provide long support (paid by, hey, customers money) the volunteer based project doesn't have them, simple as that. It doesn't change the fact that BSD license is more friendly to businesses and that's why so many companies can and DO choose FreeBSD as their technology and are completely FREE to share their code and/or money with FreeBSD. But again, that's not the point.

[quitspamming]

I'll try to refine the point I was making. For years FreeBSD has explained away their problems by saying "we don't have big business helping us" and then they turn around and say "one of our key advantages is we're more friendly to big business". At some point, you need to stop offering up ONE of those arguments because while theoretically both points can be true, you have to eventually ask if FreeBSD is so good for business, why aren't there Red Hat, IBM, or Linaro for FreeBSD? And if so many businesses ARE choosing FreeBSD, why isn't it showing up in more tangible ways? Netflix might contribute a lot back to FreeBSD, but, can I watch Netflix on my FreeBSD computer? I say this mostly out of frustration with a project and product that I do really like. FreeBSD just needs better arguments in support of it.