On Sat, 18 May 2002 vodka@intoxicate.us wrote:

> Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 15:51:54 -0500 (CDT)
> From: vodka@intoxicate.us
> To: netbsd-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: OT: apple's marketing is just insolent
>
>
> > Do an "ident *" in /bin on a MacOS X system. There's some code
> > originating from NetBSD and OpenBSD in there.
>
> I remember on the earlier versions on MacOS X (I think the very first
> release), Apple didn't even bother removing the CVS tags in most files in
> /etc.  So you could still see NetBSD and OpenBSD tags on those files.

just someone on top decided to port from freebsd as fast as possible.
quite possibly having very little or no experience of freebsd