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Behind OS X’s modern face lies an aging collection of Unix tools | The Robservatory

Behind OS X’s modern face lies an aging collection of Unix tools:

The results were interesting, to say the least—many of the core Unix utilities in OS X are years and multiple versions behind their open source, er, sources. You can thank GPL v3 for that, as noted above (and covered in more detail below).