My customers aren't using Windows.

... ok, I don't have any customers yet. But when I launch, FreeBSD and Linux will be the only supported operating systems (with other BSDs to follow as soon as someone cares enough to ask for them; and OS X on the near-term to-do list). Windows is too expensive to support; and in any case, people who care about security probably aren't using Windows anyway.

I can assure you that the DoD cares about security. I am curious about why Windows would be "too expensive" to support.

Two reasons: 1. With system files, file locking, the registry, and similar complications, Windows makes backup software far more complicated than necessary -- in this case, "expensive" means "it would take a long time to write all the necessary code". 2. Windows users are generally less clueful, and therefore require more time-consuming hand-holding.

EDIT: There's also another benefit to starting with FreeBSD: Many FreeBSD users know and trust the project's security officer, while most Windows users haven't a clue who I am. :-)

And you earnestly believe that forcing them to use BSD would make them somehow better able to grok computing?

I can tell you I won't support Windows and will ignore it for the foreseeable future. I'm making web apps, for fuck's sake! (And if IE wants my support, then it just has to support standards better and my site will automagically support it, for the most part).

In business it's about doing something that your customers want, and if they run IE as their browser they want your site to work on their computers. If it doesn't they will find one that does.