> That said, I find strange the fact that so many corporations choose to support GNU/Linux over BSD in terms of driver development or funding, given that the BSD license is way more permissive. This was the reason Linux picked-up early on and became way more popular than BSD among hacker, but when corporations jumped-in, they didn’t choose BSD, they went with linux. I am not sure if this was a data-driven decision or it was just a matter of technical people in decision-making positions have a lot more sympathy for Linux than BSD.
Linux was already showing a bit better momentum by the time corporations starting contributing.
Also I suspect some of it came down to legacy Unix vendors (IBM, HP, SGI, Sun etc) deciding that if they were going to contribute to open source projects, GPL was actually preferable to BSD. IBM didn't want their contributions ending up in Solaris and Sun didn't theirs ending up in AIX etc. Maybe the same with competing hardware vendors and drivers too.
Linux was already showing a bit better momentum by the time corporations starting contributing.
Also I suspect some of it came down to legacy Unix vendors (IBM, HP, SGI, Sun etc) deciding that if they were going to contribute to open source projects, GPL was actually preferable to BSD. IBM didn't want their contributions ending up in Solaris and Sun didn't theirs ending up in AIX etc. Maybe the same with competing hardware vendors and drivers too.