“There are a number of common misconceptions about FreeBSD
in non-BSD circles...These misconceptions are detrimental to
the community and their long term effect is to drive away users.
The motivations for spreading these falsehoods range from simple
ignorance to social, political, and economic agendas.”
“Here, I aim to clear up many of these misconceptions in the
hope to attract new users and prevent the spread of misinformation
about FreeBSD…”
“There are four wholly separate BSD derived operating systems in
current development. These are BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and
OpenBSD. These projects neither pretend to be the same operating
system nor operate with the same goals…”