H̶a̶l̶f̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶ 600M unsuspecting FreeBSD users (opens in new tab)

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4 pointsmace11y ago2 comments

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I wouldn't say these are BSD users. If I am a windows user and connect to google's linux servers to search, does that make me a linux user?

maceOP11y ago

Agreed. I think this title is a bit flippant and I'm sure the 600M+ WhatsApp users don't care what the servers are running.

The important takeway is that FreeBSD and Erlang have worked really well for WhatsApp allowing them to grow their userbase insanely fast while still staying relatively small.

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Moyamo11y ago

I wouldn't say these are BSD users. If I am a windows user and connect to google's linux servers to search, does that make me a linux user?

maceOP11y ago

Agreed. I think this title is a bit flippant and I'm sure the 600M+ WhatsApp users don't care what the servers are running.

The important takeway is that FreeBSD and Erlang have worked really well for WhatsApp allowing them to grow their userbase insanely fast while still staying relatively small.

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