Originally posted by DaemonFC
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1. Really really incredibly stupid
2. Trolling
Assuming the former, if you were a programmer in any way shape or form you'd realize that FreeBSD is written better. This is crucial when it comes to managing servers that perform very important roles, because if anything bad happens then it's the system admins fault. In my experiences there's only one Linux installation that never had to be manually rebooted due to crashes (Kernel crashes, entirely different hardware among the crashes). I have never had to restart a FreeBSD installation.
Not just that but Btrfs is somewhat not viable on an enterprise level. It performs terribly. It probably won't perform well for a long time. ZFS is the only thing that when attached to something that performs very near Linux (FreeBSD) performs well enough to be worth it AND has the wonderful features it does.
In regards to the GPL, it isn't "free". It's very very restricted. I'd rather release my software under the BSD license because the only way anything is going to be remotely successful is if people have the freedom to do with it what they want (Including use in proprietary software). I oppose the GPL and have for quite some time. It's useful for the Linux kernel and stuff like GCC but for random applications it's not.
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