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Those are three VERY different things and are absolutely not interchangeable.
They all bear the same permissive properties
Not really. https://fossa.com/blog/open-source-licenses-101-mit-license/
Reading this text, it looks kinda like the difference between red (#FF0000) apples, red (#FF0001) apples, and red (#FF0100) apples...
After reading your link, they can absolutely be used interchangably in a comparison with copyleft licenses. Your own link says that they are very similar.
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/217/what-are-the-essential-differences-between-the-bsd-and-mit-licences#582
For anyone not wanting to read through that article, here's the tl;dr:
Apache requires you to note what changes (if they're "substantial") you made to the code. Otherwise it's identical to MIT.
BSD is effectively identical to MIT.