Re: Using a FreeBSD desktop was somehting about dog food

From: Mark Tinka <mark_at_tinka.africa>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2022 16:04:57 UTC

On 3/27/22 16:49, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:

>
> I am always mentioning that  without a sufficiently  large user base , 
> approximately
> a large number of companies will not be interested in FreeBSD  because 
> they will
> not be able to sell products to FreeBSD users to recover their expenses .
> I am a subscriber of many FreeBSD mailing lists .  It is very easy to 
> store a
> copy of mailing list archives by using  "wget" .
> If we count  the current FreeBSD users , we will see that the number ( 
> NOT value ) of
> them is small .  Newcomers are  very rare .

There are several companies that use and support FreeBSD on the back-end:

https://freebsdfoundation.org/

Some of the few that come to mind:

  * Juniper
  * NetApp
  * Netflix
  * Verisign

Mark.