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Obviously the likes of Juniper, NetApp, Sony, Netflix, &c., know something you don't. Also, FreeBSD is fairly heavily used in Germany.

• ruthmarx 2y ago
  > Obviously the likes of Juniper, NetApp, Sony, Netflix, &c., know something you don't. Or there was no advantage and it was just the preference of the person designing the architecture.
  • DaSHacka 2y ago
    I'm sure all those companies decided to base their flagship products on a particular (implied inferior) system all because of one dude's preference
    • ruthmarx 2y ago
      It's not that far fetched. Someone is going to be the lead architect. If BSD works as well as Linux but the guy in charge has a preference for BSD, that's enough for them to go BSD.
    • BSDobelix 2y ago
      Junior Developers: There's this guy in the cellar, his beard is 1 metre long, he hates the Sun but he likes FreeBSD. Management: He must be right if he has such a long beard, let's take FreeBSD Marketing: At least he is not eating from he's feet or wants to retroactively abort someone, let's go for it.
  • heraldgeezer 2y ago
    I am sure companies design their entire OS based on that...
• mardifoufs 2y ago
  Aren't NetApp and Juniper slowly switching to Linux too?