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See also http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html for a brief history.
For a fairly unbiased view of the merits of each license, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_and_GPL_licensing.
Using FreeBSD's ports collection: software installation is as easy as pkg_add -r application_name.
In addition, all code is browsable through a web-interface: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/.
An interesting overview of the evolving Linux development model can be found at http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT4155251624.html.