Re: Why don't you eat your own dog food?

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 02:19:07AM +0100, iio7@tutanota.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This question is mainly to the FreeBSD developers, as the title
> say, why don't you eat your own dog food?

This is, I think, a salient question.

I'm not a dev, but when selecting an OS one of the things I look for is 
<whatever OS> dogfooding it (for example, mail services)

Dogfooding it means belief in the product. if the authors of the
product don't dogfood then why should I trust them?

For this reason, even projects that I'd like to support, like for example
hardenedbsd, even though i agree with their philosophy, they don't
dogfood their mailing list. How can I take seriously a distro
purporting to be hot on security yet their mailing list is on 
flipping gmail, I ask you.

If they were running their ml on hardenedbsd OS I'd be
more trusting as they're essentially "putting their money 
where their mouth is". But they're not. That's not dissing
hardenedbsd per se. I agree with their objectives. But it gives me pause.

Contrast with openbsd, where as far as I'm aware is all running
on openbsd OS. I don't know fully about freebsd, but I think 
it's the same deal.

It's a trust thing.
-- 
J.