alt Hacker News> Not to interrupt the predictable HN hates women train but
Oh rubbish.
When you're the head of something, you're paid to use their products if not for anything but image purposes.
Do you think the head of GM drives around in a Mustang?
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Why? Where is this written? Which law is this? Also: should they use 'their products' on every single piece of hardware they own?
This is like that old argument that you can't wear leather belts "if you really are a vegetarian". Ugh.
CEO of Ford drives around in a Xiaomi SU7
The CEO of Ford has been driving a Chinese EV for some time now. Knowing what the competition are doing is pretty critical.
>Oh rubbish.
Nah, it's not rubbish. The comments on just about any article featuring a woman in a tech leadership position are always the same here.
>When you're the head of something, you're paid to use their products if not for anything but image purposes.
Again you conveniently leave out the "on a laptop" qualifier.
10 minutes a day is about all I could tolerate of BSD on a laptop too.
the head of something
Note that "FreeBSD Foundation" != "FreeBSD Project".
Obviously they're connected, but the FreeBSD Foundation supports the FreeBSD Project; they don't direct it. Governance of the FreeBSD Project vests in the FreeBSD core team, which is elected by FreeBSD developers; and as a FreeBSD developer I'm far more concerned with what OS members of the core team run than I am with what OS members of the Foundation run.