Matthew Orgass <darkstar@pgh.net> wrote
>   What you see here is an attempt to resolve "we're all one big happy BSD
> family" with "my OS is better then yours."  This probably origionated from
> either FreeBSD or OpenBSD.

The cited comprison is from "The Real FreeBSD" article in Daemon news
(http://www.daemonnews.org/199909/freebsd.html)

I don't think the guy tried to defend freebsd or openbsd.
He was merely trying to refute the opinion of some linuxers that claim there
are too many different bsd's.
so he had to say something about each flavour and oversimplified things.