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Old 2nd July 2008
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Originally Posted by Oko View Post
Probably 70-80% of code in Cisco routers are from BSD. Most embedded device that you find anywhere from washing machine to your car run BSD code.
I suspect you are basing your assumption simply on the friendliness of the BSD license to business ventures, but these numbers are way off. A lot of commercial embedded work is done using vendors like Wind River, Green Hills Software, QNX, LynuxWorks, etc. As for Cisco's IOS, it is a monolithic proprietary layer which is not based on any of the *BSD's.

You may be thinking of Juniper who does base the underlying "OS" found on their routers on FreeBSD.
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