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OpenBSD shows nothing. It’s insignificant and nobody is actively looking for flaws in it.
It is enough that it is good and that it has a community that uses it.

Not everything needs to be dominant to be successful. That's a pure USian way of thinking.

In fact, we are much better of with it existing. Think of it as a safeguard in case Linux gets overwhelmed or we need to migrate in a rush.

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OpenBSD gave you OpenSSH and many interesting technologies. Hardly “insignificant “…
It did, yet almost no one uses the OS itself.
OpenBSD is a software distribution, that can be used as an operating system. To claim OpenBSD is “insignificant” is simply wrong.

OpenBSD components are widely used. OpenSSH is one example used by most of HN.

OpenBSDs libc is also used by Android as another example. Also widely used.