@scrottie Yes, alas this is still besides the point. The point being, what if tomorrow NetBSD goes slop? We can't forever switch to the next best thing, or start from scratch, leaving the vast majority of people in the cold for whom that's not an option. That's what I am talking about, the public, and for their sake we should recognise software as social infrastructure, and don't let private individuals fuck it up with greed or stupidity, much like how we don't let tobacco companies advertise or how we wouldn't let Cadbury's put bleach in their wares and wouldn't say "well just buy Hershey's then" in response.

You're telling me BSDs are workable. They are indeed, no objection. I quite enjoyed FreeBSD on my desktop (which was a shitty laptop) about a decade ago now. Emacs, vtwm, Ctrl+T, fun stuff. It's probably much better now.