Agreed, too much monoculture is harmful. Although I've been using Linux since the beginning ('92), I'm installing more BSDs these days because quality is declin

Agreed, too much monoculture is harmful. Although I've been using Linux since the beginning ('92), I'm installing more BSDs these days because quality is declining in the Linux world (as you well coughed). Small historical timeline correction though: > Things like ZFS, Zones, DTrace, SMF, and Crossbow were locked up inside Sun Solaris for many years Solaris 10 (which contained the bulk of these) came out in 2005 and Open Solaris open sourced the code also in 2005. The timeline is more complex because not everything came in Solaris 10 at once and not everything open sourced at once... but at a high level, most of these technologies were open sourced relatively soon after initial release. (I was at Sun back then and involved with Open Solaris effort.)