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>	http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html

If developmental stability was all it took to attract third party develop=
ers then why didn't FreeBSD "win the desktop" a decade ago? Or indeed Pla=
n 9 (I suppose this is reductio)?