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.
replyI'm reminded of another legendary HN thread:
replyAlso hilarious to see Drew Houston responding a bit later on the same thread:
reply> 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)
It may well have been your point, but that it's the exact same person makes this even better
replyI haven't switched to BSD but I've been thinking about it for a while. I just saw Vultr has both FreeBSD and OpenBSD!
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