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> From: Peter Hummers
>
> Is it necessary for the 
> survival of the BSDs that they go on my grandmother's desktop? People 
> who need BSD professionally (as opposed to dilletantes like me) know 
> about it. And we dilletantes find out. A professional sysadmin should 
> know that BSD is better than Linux (for serving etc., I mean). Are the
> free BSDs in danger?

I tell people that FreeBSD is the exception to the FBC engineering rule.