Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 15:07:05 +1000 From: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: an unexpected BSD user Message-ID: <20150504050704.GJ25694@bacardi.hollandpark.frase.id.au>
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--YmemKvFH1mmyXPxa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Most BSD users I encounter are developers, sysadmins or people in other computing fields; I guess that most people on this list would have the same experience. Occasionally I meet a person of some other vocation who is a Linux user. Rarely do I encounter a BSD user "in the wild", but it happened today so I thought I would share. Two tradesmen arrived to remove the asbestos cladding from my shed. They asked me to move my car. After doing this one of them asked, "So, are you some sort of open source developer?" "Uhh... well, yes I am. How did you guess?" "Your number plate." I was astonished. My wife has been teasing me for years that noone understands my BSD-flavoured personalised plates. Well, take that! Anyhow, I asked him whether he uses free software and he explained that he had been using BSD for 15 years (he did not specify which BSD; perhaps FreeBSD, perhaps not). So there you have it. It is easy to be blinkered and imagine that BSD is only used by computer-ing people with computer-y jobs, but it is nice to be reminded that BSD (and free software in general) does reach into the everyday lives of all kinds of people. Cheers, Fraser --YmemKvFH1mmyXPxa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVRv52AAoJEEtTkFJBEeHi600P/inLzcSpaPSJ7Fc3lssqxWHj 2hGWzLIRbLusMTRIMoqqcECa8yx6SIRg8zkzOC7amFD6D7tvEcR+8mZMAP2r0b0K U0HpYQyrV9+Ux7qhVZph+Oo7O65qvOqd6lantct2/SA/XvCtFIM7i0zl2PqQSVmk LM3+vqm0MbGKFr/wCRlnxd0oGDH9ZsparU+VcJBRNzI+11wXue8ddFG6PRyEWkPo SoBisE4/qs8PGgUMP5VJNw1+GkpxVqaEW4i2l8kawe3OVWqlyAaVwE2oBZZmPOnB cCKWJdG4vU1C0OEiX68eMoGKuiO7hzqhnC1U/X8iVXgOVogGKDByxlANq5QBtnkR pQmOz/1UTLzI/sQrVTjW2mXt7Sk/ogNUfB0ArudQu7V9bpZQg4eh4gzR33i/byKq LSqe1W/c6Y4gwlLAgxqYgtV/ubrj5Hx/oU5eGMVU4iJziBIoD437pVpZayUOIkmD m09oBUdE/5H4ywoLlfjFHjNYOxNJNVfDNZuszx83YzoYLgfddAxsPUEsWKbYKhMI 6u1tRiBgAdBF0HxPtjCGTvQoJ4M+RuaKJPpkq9zA410dT1IWu+cm/u1rGtNgJe4p AB+acb0X/zd0bDQQGYNQ9vZv247hlogSnHH/D1HBpcOeOqMVW633py038v6iboaF Ui9Ufh+N4aDugdnPsAkw =oSv0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YmemKvFH1mmyXPxa--
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