That's exactly what happened. Those crazy kids at Berkeley cooked up BSD, which was written to meet their needs and subsequently forked into a few variants. Th

That's exactly what happened. Those crazy kids at Berkeley cooked up BSD, which was written to meet their needs and subsequently forked into a few variants. The GNU people made a GNU collection of core utilities that met their particular needs and desires. The Unix nerds at my University felt as you did, and ran a Unix System 5 variant into the late 90's.