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I would like to know why they prefer FreeBSD to Linux.
FreeBSD uses the BSD license: https://www.freebsd.org/internal/software-license/
Uhm. AFAIK, you only have to share code under the GPL if you distribute binaries outside your organisation.
If it stays in-house, there's no distribution, thus no requirement to share the source.
I'm happy to be wrong, feel free to point out what I missed.
White what you say is true, I feel like this has more to do with their engineers being better at or more comfortable with FreeBSD or something like that.
I'd say we don't know unless we ask Netflix engineers but the comments about license look like a good one to me. Then there is in my opinion the "bloated" Linux versus the more clean BSD experience (I am a Linux user and I like to tinker with BSD sometimes). Maybe it is still true that BSD will not run on as much hardware as Linux does but have you ever compiled a custom kernel on BSD and compared it to compiling a custom kernel on Linux ? On BSD it is in comparison much easier and the documentation is usually really good.
One reason is the network stack
Can you explain more?