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by cperciva 4915 days ago
Usually it's a matter of keeping secrets from their competitors. If you know that a device due to be released next year will be running FreeBSD, it could help you figure out what components are going to be in it, for example (probably parts which FreeBSD can already run on), which might tell you something about its performance.
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Innovation through obscurity.
Alas, there's more to commercial success than mere innovation.