On: Uutils: an attempt at writing cross-platform CLI u...

[belter]

Not if you dust out your history books :-)

"Were all Unix commands re-written in Linux?"' https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85189/were-all-unix...

"Is the GNU Coreutils copied from Unix?" https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/81302/is-the-gnu-co...

[mkl → belter]

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding, but both of your links seem to disagree with you.

[belter → mkl]

The point is they re-implemented Posix, an open standard. Not copied a proprietary system.

[oblio → belter]

Yeah, but POSIX was just codifying the proprietary UNIX standards. UNIX got bootlegged in a era where license enforcement wasn't strict because people didn't even know what licenses where. These days UNIX would have been a strictly proprietary AT&T product, from day 1.

Heck, POSIX stands for Portable Operating System (POS) + IX because X is a cool letter and IX because POSIX is cooler than POSIX plus, you know, UNIX.

[belter → oblio]

MQTT was created by IBM

https://mqtt.org/

If I implement it in Rust now, dont think I will be accused of copying IBM?

[damagednoob → belter]

Would Ecmascript[1] be another example?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#History