Replace "Linux" with "Windows", and "BSD" with "Linux".
Obviously it provides nothing extra, and certainly nothing better, when it comes to a server role. Other than support contracts. And support for 3rd-party apps. And hardware drivers/compatibility. And users that know how to operate it. And brand name recognition. And size of software development community, libraries, tools. And industry reliance on non-portable software (Docker).
Answer to your question: technical superiority is dwarfed by a more popular product.
Are you saying the Linux network stack is superior to contemporary Windows?
If so, thanks for the aneurism. Windows is decades ahead, thanks to a fundamentally more performant kernel and driver architecture, the key parts of which have been present since NT. (And VMS, if you want to get picky.)
> And industry reliance on non-portable software (Docker).
Docker is the new shiny kid on the block, but the industry is far from reliant on it. It's also a bit misleading to call the software non-portable in a Linux v FreeBSD debate - it's not that the software is non-portable, it's that it uses a feature that is not available in FreeBSD. In a contest about bragging rights, that's significant.
Obviously it provides nothing extra, and certainly nothing better, when it comes to a server role. Other than support contracts. And support for 3rd-party apps. And hardware drivers/compatibility. And users that know how to operate it. And brand name recognition. And size of software development community, libraries, tools. And industry reliance on non-portable software (Docker).
Answer to your question: technical superiority is dwarfed by a more popular product.