[Bug 261058] Mid-way into a four-year-long twenty-fifth anniversary. Cheers!

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261058

--- Comment #4 from Graham Perrin <grahamperrin@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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