https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261058
--- Comment #4 from Graham Perrin <grahamper...@gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Graham Perrin from comment #2)
Top left of the page:
> FreeBSD … A large community has continually developed it
> for more than thirty years. …
As far as I can tell, the word "it":
* refers to BSD
* does not refer to FreeBSD.
Three points in time:
1978-03-09
1BSD RELEASE
Berkeley Software Distribution based off of UNIX
<https://freebsdfoundation.org/freebsd/timeline/>
2008-12-28
"… derived from BSD, …"
<https://web.archive.org/web/20081228134201/http://www.freebsd.org:80/>
2009-01-01
"… FreeBSD's code base has undergone over thirty years of …"
<https://web.archive.org/web/20090101062411/http://www.freebsd.org:80/>
… then (I'll not guess when) ambiguity increased,
eventually the first paragraph at the home page became wrong.
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Thoughts:
* shorten or remove the paragraph
* make better use of the About page
* do not attempt to cram the historic relationship between BSD and FreeBSD
into the home page
* link from somewhere (maybe the About page) to the
Foundation-provided timeline
* beware of ambiguous words such as "it".
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