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"BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for the PC"


"BSD people do what they do because they love Unix. Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft." --Theo de Raadt


And right here we see why BSD mindshare is a fraction of Linux mindshare: managing to outperform Linux in the "arrogant, condescending nerd" factor.


I don't see the problem.

Linux mindshare is smaller that Microsoft mindshare, too




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