These things were debated ad nauseam in the 90s, I started to feel nostalgic. To me it seems like a semantic issue and, fortunately, we are free people and can

These things were debated ad nauseam in the 90s, I started to feel nostalgic. To me it seems like a semantic issue and, fortunately, we are free people and can use either name. As for the "horrible implementation" part... People nowadays don't realize how it worked in practice. Many extensions, like in GCC, appeared because people needed them (and at least in the case of compilers they're clearly marked as such). Also, at the time the GNU utilities were superior to native tools. Many Solaris admins started by installing GNU tools to make the system more usable, for example. If GNU was really so terrible, why would they do that? It's very easy to criticize it now, but it was a huge effort by thousands of people and I'm vert grateful to all of them.