Well, it's not your problem, but when millions of developers like GNU coreutils over BSD coreutils, then it kind of becomes everyone's problem :-)
There's a reason GNU became popular when there were other tools available before it appeared.
I don't care if they cannot install Gnu/Linux on their machine, but being forced to use a proprietary system like Mac. Not my problem. Don't want bsd-core-utils? Don't buy apple, it's so easy.
>There's a reason GNU became popular when there were other tools available before it appeared.
That's not the reason and you know it, stop with that half-knowledge you think you have.
Something to read for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....
And yet they do, by the millions :-) Anyway, I don't really have a bone to pick on this topic.
However:
> That's not the reason and you know it, stop with that half-knowledge you think you have.
Yes, it is. They were full of features and that's why they became popular.
Please enlighten us with your rest-of-half-knowledge, otherwise.
I don't like Mac nor do i like gnu-coreutil...but that's my personal taste, and not my problem.
>Plus how long did MacOS diverge from FreeBSD? 20+ years ago? Does it even resemble current FreeBSD enough that this observation makes sense, except from a software history perspective?
I said what kernel it uses (FreeBSD and Mach) and i don't know if Apple re-bases their code on current FreeBSD-Code...you can look that for for yourself. Don't start twisting facts because you didn't knew better, at least now you know.