Strategic Thinking (was: Re: Speculative: Rust for base system components)

[Wojciech Puchar]

>
>> Niche. We should be more than simply a desktop O/S (which BTW I use as
>> my primary desktop) and we should be more than a simple bare metal O/S.
>
> Interesting, back in the 90s I went for FreeBSD (and stuck with it)
> for the exact opposite reasons: it was a no thrills bare metal OS that
> didn't try to be "everything" like Linux distros were! :-))

And that's the reason i use it for everything.
I don't need to do fashionable things, as large corporations do this en 
masse for dumb masses, and few others blidnly repeating the same.