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I understand this, but was answering the question (in general) about why I believe BSD has better networking.

Not in Apple's best interest. Were I Apple, I would tie this up in court until there is a better political climate. They have the money to kick the can down the road.

Throughput. The BSD networking stack has been very carefully engineered over time. Linux is OK, but nowhere near as robust. FreeBSD is legendary for load tolerance and network thro…

Try OpenBSD. OpenBSD has the best laptop support of the BSDs. Dragonfly BSD offers nothing that Free- or OpenBSD doesn't IMHO. OpenBSD supports tons of chipsets, suspend, sound, wi…

Very cool, very interesting. Regarding systemd, we here in the BSD camp welcome you. :) No such issue like systemd with its binary nonsense in FreeBSD or OpenBSD. And, one config f…

Relative to the company as a whole. Stuff like this is built in to the slush fund as "hazard" money. The shareholders could care less. Apple has more money than the African contine…

Mere beer money...

Not a fanboy, thank you, just a happy IT pro. We use and prefer BSD and attendant software because we prefer the BSD/CDDL(ZFS)/MIT and similar licenses. The GPL is off-putting for …

ZFS on Linux. No, thank you. I'll continue to use ZFS natively under FreeBSD, which is arguably a far better OS for what ZFS users would be wanting anyway. Been using *BSD since th…

Civil discourse is already at an all-time low. What could possibly go wrong? Bad idea.

America would be just fine with zero H1-B workers. There is zero deficiency in IT numbers that qualified Americans cannot fill. The issue lies with companies being cheap and disavo…

Nothing at all wrong with putting foreign workers on a lesser footing. This is America, they are Indians. They should bloody well be grateful to even be let in the country, especia…