From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 01:55:13 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] System Economics (was is Linux "officially branded UNIX") In-Reply-To: References: <20170314224547.GB14659@naleco.com> Message-ID: <201703150755.v2F7tDh8027337@freefriends.org> Clem Cole wrote: > But the improvement happened *because of the economics of the system*. I guess that's true. My experience is that GNU Awk (gawk) was used on the side a lot, alongside Unix awk on Unix systems. When gawk became *the* awk on Linux systems, that's when it really started getting pounded on, and that's when many of the significant bugs and/or performance issues got shaken out. I suspect that this is true of the other major GNU tools, such as Bash, coreutils, etc. Arnold