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Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors
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> Heh. "The customer is /always/ right, even when they're wrong."  The
> difference is that you give the idiot customers exactly what they ask
> for, and the good customers what they actually need....
which cannot be done.

you choose idiots or good customers, as it's effectively 2 market niches.