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

[Enji Cooper]

On Jan 5, 2019, at 07:16, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at puchar.net> wrote:

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>>> FreeBSD should aim for that room, rather than become "Linux-sans-GPL"
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>> We should try to fit into the datacentre.
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> To whose gain?

See my previous reply: Dell (Isilon, etc), Juniper, Panasas (sp?), Sandvine, WhatsApp (Facebook), etc.

Example: Facebook has toyed around with converting their entire WhatsApp fleet away from FreeBSD in the datacenter to FB Linux. Let’s give them less ammo to do so. They were a major financial contributor to the FreeBSD project back a couple years ago, so like it or not, having FreeBSD be a compelling project is helping finance your “hobby OS”.

Cheers,
-Enji