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Sure, Sony chooses a crap preforming OS just because it can't license the most popular. That makes sense.

• skissane 3y ago
  It’s a gaming console. A lot of performance issues which could occur with e.g. a server OS aren’t going to happen. And the bits that are most performance critical (primarily graphics) are very custom and likely have little in common with vanilla FreeBSD So how well it performs for Sony says very little about how well it will perform for you - since your use cases have a high chance of being very different from theirs
  • roydivision 3y ago
    Yeah, I can see that. Fair enough. Thanks.
• znpy 3y ago
  > That makes sense. you'd be surprised how many nice things we don't get because of licensing. dumb example: magsafe. it'd be nice and cheap to have it on all laptops, but laptop manufacturers can't license it (because apple won't sell licenses) so they have to go with other routes.
  • BSDobelix 3y ago
    But we got BSD, Linux and GNU because of Licensing ;)