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doesn't help that gnu manual pages & documentation tend to completely ignore the origins of the tool they are emulating (compare HISTORY sections of BSD userla

by cat199 5y ago

doesn't help that gnu manual pages & documentation tend to completely ignore the origins of the tool they are emulating (compare HISTORY sections of BSD userland vs GNU coreutils ones as one simple example)

lmm 5y ago
Part of the point of GNU was to be a fresh implementation with no copyright dependency on Unix.
- repiret 5y ago
  That doesn’t preclude acknowledging the history of the tool.
  - cat199 5y ago
    ... which would be essentially plagiarism in other fields.
antientropic 5y ago
The GNU M4 manual has a sizable section acknowledging its precursors: https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#History https://www.gnu.org/software/m4/manual/m4.html#History
- cat199 5y ago
  perhaps the full manual, but the manual page (which is what I specifically mentioned) has quite the opposite: $ man gm4 |sed -ne 119,121p AUTHOR Written by Rene' Seindal.