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Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD (microsoft.com)
Simon Sharwood, writing for The Register: Microsoft has published its own distribution of FreeBSD 10.3 in order to make the OS available and supported in Azure. Jason Anderson, principal PM manager at Microsoft's Open Source Technology Center says Redmond "took on the work of building, testing, releasing and maintaining the image" so it could "ensure our customers have an enterprise SLA for their FreeBSD VMs running in Azure". Microsoft did so "to remove that burden" from the FreeBSD Foundation, which relies on community contributions. Redmond is not keeping its work on FreeBSD to itself: Anderson says "the majority of the investments we make at the kernel level to enable network and storage performance were up-streamed into the FreeBSD 10.3 release, so anyone who downloads a FreeBSD 10.3 image from the FreeBSD Foundation will get those investments from Microsoft built in to the OS."
Don't know why you're getting the downvotes.
Probably because most of the post was unsubstantiated personal opinion, and fairly troll-ish at that.
Most of the systemd hoopla is vastly overblown and there is a VERY loud minority doing what they can to make it look otherwise. In the broader perspective, for us who actually use various Linux distributions to make our business tick (as well as at home, thank you) it's simply not that of a big deal. We adapt and move on, as we always do.
I am more than happy for any success the various *BSDs may see. Alternatives are good to have.
Why some still sees it as some kind of match that must have a winner is beyond me.
So, yeah. That's probably at least part of why that post has seen some downvotes.
It's childish, petty and not constructive whatsoever.