> > The claim that OSX or Darwin _is_ FreeBSD is hardly an educated claim. I've
> > seen/heard people claiming that OSX/Darwin is FreeBSD, and I always have
> > to prove 'em wrong (since I own a mac that has OSX running on it).
> 
> No need to prove anyone wrong.  The only point in the posting was that
> Apple was insulting the foundation of their own OS, because it includes
> pieces of what they were making fun of.

The fact that Apple claims OS X "sends all other UNIX boxes to
/dev/null" is not an insult, IMO. They imply that OS X is better than 
all other UNIX systems. If you were the second best in, say, boxing, and
had trained someone else, who ended up being better than you, would it
be an insult if that person said he is better than you? Remember
here also that Apple has not tried to hide what OS X stands on, and
they do not claim to have made OS X what it is by themselves.

Or do you feel OpenBSD is insulting security features of NetBSD, its 
foundation, by claiming that OpenBSD is the most secure OS in the world.

If someone/thing claims to be better than something else,
there is no implication that this something else is utterly crap.

I have no idea whether OS X is better than other UNIXes (though I
strongly believe not, except perhaps on desktop), but then again that 
claim is made in an advertisment, so it is OK. They don't really have to
back that kind of claim. If they said, literally, that "OS X is
better than any other UNIX", I feel they really should prove it,
but sending stuff to /dev/null is just marketing.

  -- arto