You've accurately described Debian Stable, but your argument doesn't hold for *BSD, where the "packages" (ports) you refer to do not differ between -STABLE and -CURRENT. So if you're running 7.4-RELEASE, any ports you have will be just as "updated" as those you'd have running 9.0-RC1.

The title of this newspost is misleading. Microsoft has not banned all open source software from the Marketplace, just explicitly disallowed 3 licenses known to be incompatible with how the Marketplace operates, and "equivalents" to those licenses. I've written a short piece on the subject here: http://chris.olstrom.com/opinion/windows-phone-marketplace-and-the-gplv3/ [olstrom.com]

The title of this newspost is misleading. Microsoft has not banned all open source software from the Marketplace, just explicitly disallowed 3 licenses known to be incompatible with how the Marketplace operates, and "equivalents" to those licenses. I've written a short piece on the subject here: http://chris.olstrom.com/opinion/windows-phone-marketplace-and-the-gplv3/