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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 21 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

I was completely unaware of that, but it checks out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4_system_software
No doubt FreeBSD benefit big corps, but big corps have problems benefiting FreeBSD.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_system_software playstation 3 too, also Nintendo switch using some parts of freebsd as I've heard

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

No they don't, Netflix and NetApp and I think somebody else have contributed back significantly.

Also a system intended to run exactly one application in one moment with direct access to hardware is likely not very rich on possible contributions.