[Maursault]

> wasnt darwin based on freebsd anyway?

Darwin is more directly derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, and Mach, though the XNU kernel includes a number of elements from FreeBSD including the network stack, and the userland is largely FreeBSD.

> and didnt apple hoover up all the dev teams from Freebsd to join and built it?

FreeBSD creator Jordan Hubbard worked for Apple 2001-2013, but I'm not sure who approached whom.