So if we're looking at how Sony Netflix and apple use bsd as a blueprint for the future:
The people that contribute back don't give a fuck about desktop and just use it as a server OS
The people that don't contribute back will fork the project make it usable but make all their changes proprietary
So as a freebsd user I'll get fuckall benefit from any of this is that basically it
And a BSD user will benefit from this how? None of that trickles back to them because they use a CUCK LICENSE
That's only partially true. We all know the basic distinction between Linux and BSD: Linux is a chaotic amalgam of disparate software projects that can be moulded into a functional operating system. BSD is the whole operating system unto itself.
Netflix, Sony, WhatsApp, and Yahoo (among others) all use FreeBSD as the substrate for their own commercial products. This is an established fact. We also know that you can't take a dumped PS3 or PS4 game and get it running natively on FreeBSD. That's also common knowledge. It's 100% intentional, but the flip side of the situation is that FreeBSD itself only ships out a comparatively minimal product that everyone else builds upon.
We can't take an x86 PC, shove FreeBSD on it, and mould it into a proper DIY PS5. Even if that collection of software was available under a FOSS license, FreeBSD still wouldn't ship it natively. From the FreeBSD team's perspective, they're only responsible for the text console OS that you download as an ISO or an IMG file off FreeBSD.org.
If Sony wants to make all their PS4 software available on FreeBSD, they'd do so from the ports tree. Here's the rub with the ports tree: it's all external software that the core FreeBSD developers ain't responsible for in the slightest. If it installs in the
/usr hierarchy, it's a port and it's the responsibility of a port maintainer to make sure it builds cleanly. Not all ports maintainers are core FreeBSD developers. It's a distinction that lots of people in the Linux camp miss out on.
When you talk about Apple, Sony, Netflix, Yahoo, WhatsApp, and so on contributing back to FreeBSD, I'm pretty sure you mean "FreeBSD + the entire ports tree ecosystem." In reality, these companies do contribute to FreeBSD, but specifically on a "FreeBSD, the base text-console OS and nothing from the ports tree" level. If there's a low-level issue with say... the networking stack, and it's a problem with upstream (re: FreeBSD itself), these companies have no incentive to deliberately withhold that knowledge and their patches.
Of course, sending patches upstream is basically where the goodwill ends. You damn sure won't find Apple, Sony, Yahoo, Meta, among others who use FreeBSD, throwing their money and paid man hours into building up FreeBSD the way that Google, IBM, Oracle, and even Microsoft (among others) do for Linux.