I have to agree with ammo...

I'm hearing of more and more people (friends and the like) changing from windows and/or Linux to FreeBSD (or OpenBSD) because of the stability, security, and strong development community. BSD is not going away (at least not for a very long time).

I figure this comes from one of two directions:

1. Perhaps the author of that "article" was upset over the depreciated pace of the improvments for NetBSD, but to put that in a correct perspective, the development community of NetBSD is MUCH smaller than that of OpenBSD or FreeBSD and so getting the code reworked takes more time. Even then, NetBSD isn't going to go away anytime soon either.

2. Either parties from the Microsoft side or the Linux side are waging "verbal warfare" in an attempt to scare people who would be interested in spending their time on one of the BSD projects. Even though this may sound foolish even to mention, you'd be surprised what "fans" will do for their teams (even MS )...

Garbage in, garbage out. Don't believe everything you read. Pull out the scales and weigh it in the balance. On my scale, that article weighs in at a whopping "absurd."

Mayhaps you should grab a copy of one of the lastest -stables and play with it to see for yourself whether or not the BSD communities are really "falling apart."

IMHO, the rest of the OS development world (not only just the open source world) will still be learning from the BSD projects for a long time to come.

Best!

Rev.