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0 pointsloloquwowndueo18d ago0 comments

The person suggesting FreeBSD is a FreeBSD developer (Colin Percival - actually according to Wikipedia FreeBSD engineering lead), would be weird for him to suggest openbsd.

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Rendello18d ago

I'm reminded of another legendary HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

guiambros18d ago

Also hilarious to see Drew Houston responding a bit later on the same thread:

> we're in a similar space -- http://www.getdropbox.com (and part of the yc summer 07 program) basically, sync and backup done right (but for windows and os x). i had the same frustrations as you with existing solutions.

> let me know if it's something you're interested in, or if you want to chat about it sometime.

>drew (at getdropbox.com)

liamwire18d ago

It may well have been your point, but that it's the exact same person makes this even better

Rendello17d ago

It was, yes. I was trying to figure a way to bring it up but I didn't want to imply that the comment here was ignorant for not knowing the account. It's the opposite, HN accounts have so little fanfare and we all talk in the same threads, it's fun!

Dylan1680716d ago

> would be weird for him to suggest openbsd

Okay. But the question isn't about him, the question is about the actual merits. And he's a good person to ask for a compelling argument about the merits.

If you ask Bill Gates why you should use MS-DOS in particular, not DR DOS, the answer is not "it would be weird for Bill Gates to suggest DR DOS".

krupan17d ago

Why did you assume I didn't know that?

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