[Annatar]

FreeBSD and Illumos have always seemed to be good friends rather than competitors in the operating system landscape. Not only do you rarely hear something bad said about the other from the communities, but there is a healthy level of respect and cross-pollination going on.

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It is refreshing to see such cooperation in an otherwise extremely competitive field. This fantastic attitude inspires us.

We are truly lucky and blessed to have the people in the FreeBSD community as friends.

It is a great time to be a part of both communities and have such advanced techologies at our collective disposal.

The future is bright indeed. There are no two platforms I’d rather be on than SmartOS and FreeBSD. Thank you dear friends for everything you’ve done.

[Licenser]

Agreed, the FreeBSD community has been incredibly welcoming despite differences in approach of some which is super refreshing compared to the "just do it that way we've always done it like that" you encounter in other places.