One particular aspect that appeals to some companies is the BSD licence. This allows them to use NetBSD without being obliged to make their source changes available. We obviously prefer them to do so, but agree it should be their choice. One option is to contribute back fixes and enhancement to the general code, while keeping specific sections confidential. We have a large number of active projects, and even a set of goals for the 1.5 release, but we do not make this information easily available on the website.
People are more interested in writing code than telling people about it.
We probably want to concentrate on getting the project information current, though all NetBSD developers and users are encouraged to contribute to Daemon news. We have a list of drivers and the generic devices they support, but few named vendor products as found on the shelves of computer stores. We should try to expand the supported devices list to include more real product names. There is work underway to make libc threadsafe, and we finally have an open ' tech-smp ' list for those working on SMP support. We already spin up secondary CPUs on sparc, and have some code on alpha and i386, but do not have any scheduling machinery in place.