In my experience it all comes down to performance and tunability. Our personal preferences are just that, personal.
Linux has vsyscalls which makes it performant for the typical LAMP stack. If you profile a PHP Zend framework "hello world" app it makes 20k+ calls to gettimeofday(), which is very slow on FreeBSD in comparison. Throw a couple hundred requests/s and you saturate the CPU for no good reason.
FreeBSD needs business support in order to maintain funding, and be a relevant competitor to Linux. If a developer were to pick a popular application stack like node and identify significant performance gains it would make waves.
I read your argument in two parts - one that appeals to my own emotions and one that hides behind the law to demonize illegal trade.
Let's ignore the emotional part because that is highly subjective.
I'd argue that the current legislation is not effective in representing the best interests of the general public, which is what I understand the spirit of all laws to be. It takes too long to change, and for change to even be considered it takes a significant amount of money or collective effort which is not always practical.
What is terrorism, actually? If you give this question some serious thought, it becomes apparent that the term is full of confusion. Politicians perpetuate – and exploit – this ambiguity; causing greater harm by diverting attention away from issues which really do need to be addressed.
More people are killed by the police than terrorism in the United States.
I think your fears are purely speculative and are distracting from what's really going on here. We are witnessing a demand for unregulated markets because regulated markets are way too slow in responding to social changes.
Let's face it - governmental decisions are made in the best interest of influential parties, not in the best interests of the individual.
Facebook's product is you. Your data, habits, communications. Twitter is a simpler model. It costs $360k/yr[1] to get access to only 50% of all tweets. Combined with advertising they finally turned their first profit in Q4 2013[2].
Imagine the value of the more intimate data facebook has about you.
Linux has vsyscalls which makes it performant for the typical LAMP stack. If you profile a PHP Zend framework "hello world" app it makes 20k+ calls to gettimeofday(), which is very slow on FreeBSD in comparison. Throw a couple hundred requests/s and you saturate the CPU for no good reason.
FreeBSD needs business support in order to maintain funding, and be a relevant competitor to Linux. If a developer were to pick a popular application stack like node and identify significant performance gains it would make waves.