Re: [wlug] Are the BSDs Dying? Some Security Researchers Think So

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:49:29 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:

'The BSDs have lost the battle for mindshare to Linux, and that may well bode ill for the future sustainability of the BSDs as viable, secure operating systems, writes CSO's JM Porup'

First of all, no open-source project can die as long as it has some kind of active community (large numbers of passive users are irrelevant for this). Having said that, I think the main reason the BSDs haven’t embraced Linux is because of their ideological allergy to the GPL. Hence their need to reinvent their own drivers for the same hardware.