What if you held a revolution, and nobody cared?

The article: FreeBSD vows to compete with desktop Linux is really kind of sad and funny to me, since I admire the *BSD's like I admire Southwest Airlines, they are doing the right thing to make extremely affordable access to their respective products, but I don't admire them enough to want to consume those products.

After years of being a business traveller, I don't really care for being herded onto a Southwest flight like a bunch of cattle, surrounded by half or fully-besotted vacationing leather-skinned older women with a voice that sounds like a bucket full of ground glass and drunken college kids.

For the *BSD's, there are two things that bother me about them, firstly their licenses mean that anyone can effectively use their code and never have to contribute back, (the dating example would be after the 1 night stand, the guy never calls her back, or even worse, just comes over and gets some more and then never calls either) and of course some of the people in that camp, such as Theo de Raadt, who manages often to do more harm than good, mostly by opening his mouth, such as this interview. There's a lot to be said for just programming and letting the marcom guys do their job...