Why did Apple choose BSD and not Linux? Why did Netflix choose BSD and not Linux? Licensing is often a factor. The reasons however will not be the same for e

Why did Apple choose BSD and not Linux? Why did Netflix choose BSD and not Linux? Licensing is often a factor. The reasons however will not be the same for everyone. There are more similarities than differences between the two, however one difference IMO is that BSD has a level of "quality control", especially over the userland, that Linux does not. I find that my own sensibilities as a user align better with the relatively small number of people doing "quality control" and development for BSD projects than with the enormous number of people who work on Linux -- for me, the number of Linux contributors is too many to keep track of and I find it difficult to understand what all of their sensibilities are.