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Thanks to all who replied, both on and off list.  I've attempted to =
distill the replies that I got into a coherent summary.  I've put the =
draft on the wiki here:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/WhyUseFreeBSD

Feedback welcome!

David

On 30 May 2012, at 19:20, David Chisnall wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>=20
> This is off-topic, so please feel free to disregard it, but I'm =
sending it to this list in the hope that it will reach a largish number =
of users. =20
>=20
> I am currently looking at updating some of our advocacy material =
(which advertises exciting new features like SMP support), and before I =
do I'd like to get a better feel for why the rest of you are using =
FreeBSD.  If you had to list the three things you most like about =
FreeBSD, which would you pick?  Are they the same as when you first =
started using it? =20
>=20
> David