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> I don't like Mac nor do i like gnu-coreutil...but that's my personal taste, and not my problem.

Well, it's not your problem, but when millions of developers like GNU coreutils over BSD coreutils, then it kind of becomes everyone's problem :-)

There's a reason GNU became popular when there were other tools available before it appeared.



>but when millions of developers like GNU coreutils over BSD coreutils

I don't care if they cannot install Gnu/Linux on their machine, but being forced to use a proprietary system like Mac. Not my problem. Don't want bsd-core-utils? Don't buy apple, it's so easy.

>There's a reason GNU became popular when there were other tools available before it appeared.

That's not the reason and you know it, stop with that half-knowledge you think you have.

Something to read for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....


> Don't buy apple, it's so easy.

And yet they do, by the millions :-) Anyway, I don't really have a bone to pick on this topic.

However:

> That's not the reason and you know it, stop with that half-knowledge you think you have.

Yes, it is. They were full of features and that's why they became popular.

Please enlighten us with your rest-of-half-knowledge, otherwise.




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