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FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework.
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But why?
There are BSD shops out there. Not everyone wants to live under GPL restrictions.
Other than the obvious reasons that Linux is not everyone's piece of cake - just to have alternatives ready in case it becomes like Chrome.
Helping FreeBSD stay afloat. But maybe there is a license issue from companies point of view: BSD-2-Clause vs. GPL v2.