Nobody is going to steal a coreutils implementation, make a bunch of internal contributions to it, and yield a competitive advantage through that. The whole poi

Nobody is going to steal a coreutils implementation, make a bunch of internal contributions to it, and yield a competitive advantage through that. The whole point of coreutils is that it’s old and stable and coreish. In the real world, corporate engineering middle managers do not understand the GPL and do not understand how it does and doesn’t restrict them. They avoid it rather than taking the time to learn it.