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Documentation, elegant simplicity, ports feature flags, POLA, ZFS, observability, instrumentation, integration. Almost every FreeBSD sub-system feels as if it w
by rwaksmunski 4y ago
Documentation, elegant simplicity, ports feature flags, POLA, ZFS, observability, instrumentation, integration. Almost every FreeBSD sub-system feels as if it was thought through and built by a passionate expert engineer.
- systemvoltage 4y agoBSD License. Free, as in properly free. It's in the name. If you're a small business and want to build proprietary system, and don't have the money to shell out millions in licensing fees; FreeBSD is your system. It's the only way to beat mega corps and incumbents. FreeBSD keeps this asymmetry in check. Before someone comments about open source, there are reasons out of your hand to keep source code proprietary. For those applications, FreeBSD is a boon.
- creatonez 4y ago> Before someone comments about open source, there are reasons out of your hand to keep source code proprietary Thing is, usually those reasons don't actually exclude the usage of GPL despite someone saying they do. Google is the biggest offender here, they have outright lied about the terms of GPLv2/3 in order to have quick and easy excuses to avoid it.
- systemvoltage 4y agoI should have clarified, proprietary software that needs to be compiled and distributed; GPL compels disclosure of the source code in this case.