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Date:      Thu, 7 Apr 2022 23:11:33 +0100
From:      tech-lists <tech-lists@zyxst.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why don't you eat your own dog food?
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In-Reply-To: <MyoLmVF--3-2@tutanota.com>
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 02:19:07AM +0100, iio7@tutanota.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This question is mainly to the FreeBSD developers, as the title
> say, why don't you eat your own dog food?

This is, I think, a salient question.

I'm not a dev, but when selecting an OS one of the things I look for is=20
<whatever OS> dogfooding it (for example, mail services)

Dogfooding it means belief in the product. if the authors of the
product don't dogfood then why should I trust them?

For this reason, even projects that I'd like to support, like for example
hardenedbsd, even though i agree with their philosophy, they don't
dogfood their mailing list. How can I take seriously a distro
purporting to be hot on security yet their mailing list is on=20
flipping gmail, I ask you.

If they were running their ml on hardenedbsd OS I'd be
more trusting as they're essentially "putting their money=20
where their mouth is". But they're not. That's not dissing
hardenedbsd per se. I agree with their objectives. But it gives me pause.

Contrast with openbsd, where as far as I'm aware is all running
on openbsd OS. I don't know fully about freebsd, but I think=20
it's the same deal.

It's a trust thing.
--=20
J.

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