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> GNU Coreutils were used by a huge margin over core Sun tools to do actual work. Being more convenient doesn't quals changing the world... While Sun was hugel

by bzzzt 4y ago

> GNU Coreutils were used by a huge margin over core Sun tools to do actual work. Being more convenient doesn't quals changing the world... While Sun was hugely influential in the early days of the internet it's place could have been taken by a lot of other *nix vendors.

anthk 4y ago
If you think GCC and coreutils didn't change the world and shaped the commercial Unixen themselves, think twice.