I've sent a correction to the FreeBSD docs folks, but to clear the record here:

PS3 was not based on FreeBSD. While it does use a variety of open source components from a lot of projects and does cite them, that doesn't mean it was "based on a modified version of FreeBSD."

PS4 certainly is, but not PS3.

And that's exactly what this continuation of a 1999 patent covers: NetBoot of the original iMac. This is a non-story published by yet another blog that doesn't know how to read patents.

He wrote Wizardry. Next thing you'll be telling me that they're going to shoot Richard "Lord British" Garriott into space.