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Theo de Raadt

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We don't normally recommend that you use it over another operating system. Or even under, or beside, or even near. "Instead of " -- that describes how we use it ;)
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in response to "Why would I want to use OpenBSD over another operating system?"
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misc@openbsd.org, April 19, 2004

 
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