I'm 50 years old, now, so in college I had hands-on experience with a 3B2 running real live SVR3. There was also an academic VAX running 4.3BSD. And being close

I'm 50 years old, now, so in college I had hands-on experience with a 3B2 running real live SVR3. There was also an academic VAX running 4.3BSD. And being closely tied to the UC system myself, I gradually became a BSD fanboy. I started by putting Minix on my 286 at home, but I longed to run 386BSD. I eventually realized my dream with some nice OpenBSD installs. I was a partisan, not entirely a bigot, but I'd also seen Linux grow from infancy and considered it a toy or plaything, compared to mature BSD codebases. And truly, Linux was a hobbyist's choice for ages, but many hobbyists grow up to be professionals, don't they? In 1999 (to prove I wasn't a bigot) I installed Linux on the old 386. It was either Slackware or Debian, and the reason I chose it was to support the floppy-tape controller that was unsupported by BSD. I continued to use OpenBSD as a daily driver, alongside Windows, until 2004. Then a trusted sysadmin friend listened to my pleas for help with audio and assorted hardware, and simply directed me to Ubuntu. Since then I've been BSD-free (including no Apple devices.) My needs over the decades have reduced from "godlike control-freak sysadmin" to "power user" to "does ordinary consumerist stuff on a Windows laptop". BSD has great technical reasons and use cases. If you still use BSD, more power to you! BSD's dual legacy for the world, even after the OS itself has evaporated, will be MacOS X and BSD's corporate-profit-friendly licensing terms.