Bytecoin was the first CryptoNote and is surrounded by shady people, pre-mine launch, etc... read up here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=740112.0
To top it off, someone exploited the recent bug and they didn't roll back the offending transactions and just kept them in the blockchain: https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/4241/how-does-the-recent-patched-key-image-exploit-work-in-practice/4252#4252
Monero inherited the original CrtptoNote code, but started with the new genesis block and a fair launch. In the first few weeks it was discovered that the original miner was purposefully crippled which was fixed shortly after... anyways, since 2014 monero had thousands of commits and 100s of contributors working on the project and has significantly diverged from the original CryptoNote code. There's a nice series of posts about the history:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/duplicates/5h15rh/the_strange_birth_history_of_monero_part_ii/
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Lucky me only got monero, no byte ^^
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