[Sunspark]

The flip side of course is that improvements also come at the pace of volunteerism, and there are no boardroom meetings where a manager tells the BSD developers that they didn't type enough lines of code that week.

If a corp wants a feature improved or implemented if it doesn't exist, they will have to pay someone and then they have to decide whether they will contribute it. If they do not, then they have to maintain a fork themselves which requires ongoing resources.

At the end of the day, I don't think it really matters that much. The corps are providing a service not a software application. If they weren't using BSD, they'd be using something else.